I’m losing therapy and getting a new case manager.
They want me to stop isolating - even though I’m not lonely.
They know my symptoms keep me inside and safe and I have no idea what they are gonna do to force me to socialize. I don’t want new relationships. Very frustrated. My anxiety is shooting through the roof. Dreading meeting her in person again for the third time in two weeks.
I feel I can say no to this. But then my spouse will be disappointed.
I guess they value ‘you’re ability to socialize’.
I would hate it if they would force me to go to a daycare setting to just socialize. I would think that they just wanted to make my life miserable.
Exactly how I am feeling.
That’s right they did mention a day center.
No way I want that.
I’ve tried 2 day program before but quit after a couple of days/ weeks.
For the first I had to take the train in the morning, walk from and to the station, do activities an entire day in a psychiatric hospital. It was too exhausting.
The second one was closer and I lasted a couple of weeks. But having to take the bus and be somewhere at 9 am was also exhausting.
I was just too low functioning to be busy an entire day. What also didn’t help is that I didn’t make any friend.
That sounds horrific.
They mentioned the day center and my thoughts are like being hospitalized setting during social hour. Where everyone sits around forced to work on activities.
It’s not day care. It sounds like day hospitalization…
Whatever they want me to do. I’ll do anything else, but not that.
Thanks for telling me your experience. I made up my mind.
I prefer being ‘home alone’.
I found a new psychiatrist then who agreed that some people do better at home than in social settings. He did view me as very disabled.
My current psychiatrist is more optimistic and believes there is a way to recovery.
Personally. I would take the time you need.
Sounds like you need to manufacture a distance from them
I have kept the team I work with as much of an arm’s length as I possibly can
Yeah, I’m trying real hard to.
Hope you can find a balance
I told them that I only wanted minimal monitoring as twice a week was a bit much
twice a week is a lot.
Once a week is a lot. (This is what she is pushing for)
I first talked to her about 4 5 months ago and didn’t hit it off.
Sometimes you just know.
My therapist and his boss my previous therapist asked me to give her a chance.
Once I make progress through case management
Then he will start therapy with me again
I think balance would be meeting somewhere in the middle.
I will agree to try what I am able to and not do what I can’t.
I hope I can get through this and not pushed too hard too fast.
I think
My team is doing the same thing to me! Why don’t they just let me be. If I wanted to socialize I would socialize. I like being quiet and by myself, but they just think I’m miserable, which I’m not. They think that if they like to socialize I should.
I go to a day program. Lots of different types of people, but I always gel with a few. It’s not so much a hospital setting as it is a clubhouse. I know everyone there at least on a first name basis. We’re all involved in the groups so it can be fun. A lot of people there embrace it. It’s good to be around people and it’s easier in that setting with stuff to do and people in a similar situation.
This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.