Should I attend group therapy? What do you think? Has it helped you?
I start monday. But it’s for CD. They tell me they’re working on a MI group in the future.
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I was in a 6 week outpatient program, it was a group of about 25 people. But I don’t say sh*t in therapy because I don’t trust anyone. I don’t have a therapist either because I don’t trust them either. I ponder my own thoughts until I figure out a solution to a problem I am having and am satisfied with that.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t do well in a group that big either.
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Were people in the group high or low functioning?
It was a mix, not just high and low functioning people, but people with all kinds of mental disorders. Some people were very open about their problems and talkative, other people kept to themselves. I’m pretty high functioning but I mostly kept to myself, I never discussed my thoughts or any problems I was having in my life.
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I go every Thursday at the VA it’s really rewarding to be with other like minded folks.
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I did it several years ago. I found it to be a valuable experience. I liked talking with people who had similar struggles to me and learning coping skills that others found helpful. Sometimes it can be very therapeutic to talk to people who are in the same boat as you, and you don’t get that from regular therapy.
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Group therapy helped because you hear different stories of what people are going through, and can relate their story to your own.
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Did it way back in 1999 in a live in Theraputic Community for a year, where the residents by votes decided who could be treated. It was in the days when people with severe personality disorders were liable to be locked up by the Home Office in the UK.
Long since closed, but opened in the 1940’s treating soldiers for shell shock.
Got some top therapy (tho bloody harsh) from some of the uk’s best psychologists. Forgotton alot of it now mind you - but it was one hell of an emotional rollercoaster.
It certainly gave me the confidence to deal with the schizophrenia i got labelled with 25ish years later.
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I would love to attend group therapy if I were given the opportunity. I think you should definitely give it a go.
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I was attending a DBT group pre-covid but it got cancelled. I hear they recently started up again and that they were going to send a car around for me but I haven’t seen a car yet. The group hadn’t been all that helpful to date anyway.
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I don’t attend conventional psychiatric group therapy, but I do attend meetings of AA groups by Zoom. I used to go to them in person before COVID and have been a member for nearly 30 years. It has helped me tremendously, not only with alcohol, but in coping with my mental illness as well. I’d say give the group you’ve been invited to a try.
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I have brought up the topic w my therapist twice… I want to, but am also afraid of what I’ll say in the ‘open air’.
Paranoia… but as I think more - I think I will bc I’d really like to build up to a point where I can join the local softball team!
So it’ll be practice and who knows, maybe even turnkey instead of softball.
Group therapy. Softball team. A.A.
Those are goals… the latter I’ve done in moderation.
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