@Hanna_Foxx
Wow! That’s great! A lot of support!
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I go about twice a month now. When I first got diagnosed it was once a week if not more and I had to ask my poor brother to drive me there because I didn’t have a drivers license yet. I think he has really helped me to push myself gradually to slowly accomplish more and more and ask for his help with making decisions. I talk to him about what I’m doing and working on and social situations and my childhood problems and my suicidal thoughts. I talk about my feelings of guilt too. He and my psychiatrist believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself. My dad told me the other day that several years ago when I first dropped out and was diagnosed that he was trying to establish a special needs trust for me. I appreciate it that he was trying to take care of me the best he could and was understanding if I never did anything for the rest of my life. I think if my doctors hadn’t kept pushing me I probably would have just given up
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I go twice a month. Sometimes we just shoot the breeze. Other times we work on problems I deal with like my fear of driving. We’re getting to the bottom of it and I hope to be driving on my own soon. 
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I was going twice a month. Now I have to have a new counselor and I don’t know how often I’ll see her. We talked about my home life, about doing things afraid, and basically whatever was on my mind.
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About as often as I go mining for gold.
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I use to see the rapist. But i am through.
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once a week, we talk a lot about my negatives and then we talk about my low self esteem, go figure.
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I go to Group therapy once a week, and I see my pnurse once a month
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I see my pdoc every six weeks. And that’s fine for me. We talk about my delusions.
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Thank you all for your responses. I’m glad most of you have support.
@sea00115699
Beautiful story. How did your doctors push you?
@LilyoftheValley
Are you nervous about seeing a new one?
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They just kept encouraging me to make small steps like upping my class load from one to two then three and they encouraged me to transfer to another four year university and get one associates degree to transfer instead of staying at community college and taking extra classes to become a bookkeeper. They encouraged me to try to make friends by slowly being a little more social bit my bit in my classes. They also helped me talk through my anger at my mother. It’s sad because she doesn’t do anything mean anymore but I’m still bitter and resentful and about other issues. They encouraged me to keep learning to drive and to eventually drive by myself and get a drivers license. One of them even told me about how at some facilities they retrain people to drive in a simulator before getting back on the road and even though I never ended up seeking out this training it was a nice thought cuz truth be told I’m still not fully independent because I’m too scared to drive as much as I would need to in order to be independent. They also helped me get on SSI right away and told me when I felt a
Bad about it that it’s for people like me and when I get a job that I’ll pay a bunch of money back into the system through taxes so I’ll be contributing too. When I first got diagnosed I was asking them how I could get into a sheltered workshop but they encouraged me to go to school instead. When I first got stabilized on my meds my psychiatrist said he would write a note so that I could enroll again at the university I dropped out of and he wrote a note to have my two Fs removed, which helped a lot because all my other classes I had passed either the first or second time but the Fs I got when I was super super sick I don’t think I could have passed easily because they were upper division science classes and I would not have been able to retake them at community colllege. That helped up my gpa which made it easier to transfer to a state university that I’m at now and almost done with.
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@FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter. I’m very nervous. I keep worrying about her not wanting to help me and sending me away. I also am worried about my new case manager doing that. But maybe they won’t. But maybe they’ll help me and it’ll be ok.
Not enough…
I go once a month though I have went every 6 weeks in the past. Right now I am thinking once a month is best due to issues with depression.
I just got a new therapist that I met for the first time yesterday, she seemed to be good enough at her job from what I have seen although I miss my old therapist.
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@sea00115699
You are incredible! You are inspiring! I’m so glad you had them to help you! So many accomplishments!
@LilyoftheValley
When do you start? They are kind, compassionate, thoughtful, trained people who want to help. I hope it goes well.
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@brandotron
Are you struggling with depression now?
@FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter, I see my new case manager dec 4th, and my new counselor dec 27th.
@LilyoftheValley
I’m glad it is soon!
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@FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter I would say I am, it has been going in spurts where I am ‘ok’ one day and then very depressed another time.
My kids make me feel better but I really need to get a better grip on my depression.
@brandotron
That’s very hard. What does it look like for you to get a grip on it? Do you interact with your kids the same way when you are depressed?