They think they can treat a medical disease, negative symptoms, with talking. She kept saying that I decide to stay in bed. I should make her take some of my Risperdal and see how she will get worse.
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Blocking dopamine will make her worse.
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I agree. I don’t have any respect for therapists.
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Yeah no kidding! Let them walk in our shoes for a day. Let them take these major drugs and see where there at.
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She thinks its that easy to treat negative symptoms lmao If there is something that might work it will be meds, Vraylar.
I don’t really benefit from seeing my therapist.
I just like bullshitting with her.
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I mean it might be good for PTSD and other psychological problems but I don’t have any of these.
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Therapists are dumb. They have very little education and usually very little life experience. I don’t like my therapist very much.
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I like talking to my therapist
Because she motivates me to think about things like other ways to think about things
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It helped me find motivation and build habits to combat my negative symptoms. Give it a chance.
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I can understand your sentiment…still hope you can get something useful out of it though.
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My negative symptoms got better with therapy and hard work. So it’s possible. But might not work for you.
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I disagree that they’re uneducated. Every therapist I’ve ever seen has a master’s degree. Some therapists aren’t good, and some are great. You just have to shop around for the right fit
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Well, when I was on 5mg Abilify, hallucinating and paranoid, I wasn’t answering my therapist’s calls. When I finally answered, I was pretty nasty to her. I finally agreed to see the psychiatrist.
When she called this week, I had been out running errands. I was sitting in my chair in the living room, and my phone was plugged in, in the bedroom. I got her message, and she said to call her, so I did at 6pm.
She’s just wary of me right now because of the way I behaved on 5mg.
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My last therapist was a lot better than my current one.
My current therapist is basically useless.
Not all therapists are bad but there are a majority of incompetent therapists that are a waste of time.
Most of them don’t understand psychotic disorders.
My current therapist is clueless.
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The therapist didn’t help me but the therapy toolsets like cbt and act helped me. Learning to not focus on how I feel all the time helps to do things despite not ‘feeling’ like doing it.
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You’re stable on 5mg Abilify? I needed 20-25mg to be stable.
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My psychiatrist upped it to 10mg.
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Yes 10mg is the minimum dose for sz.
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I’m doing ok on it. I occasionally get mildly paranoid, and have occasional mild hallucinations. They don’t bother me much.
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