Therapy isn’t working. My therapist and new case manager are very removed from my inner thoughts. I needed that social connection with other people, so I started posting here. I feel like I am waking up after all these years. Now I don’t even think my pdoc should increase my injection, but at their office the only way someone can get a medicine change is to have an appointment with the pdoc. I’ve tried to ask my therapist to discuss my medication with the pdoc many times and she doesn’t seem to care. I always have to wait for the pdoc appointment. Since the lack of concern she has for me, I cancelled for tomorrow and I’m stuck getting the injection at a higher dose 
. I want to start volunteering or working because I’m defeating a lot of my anxiety posting here, and this medicine change is going to set me back.
Oft times when I know I need a medication change, I don’t know whether I need to go up or to go down. That’s why I have a trained other person moderating my meds.
Jayster
This website is not a replacement for therapy! If your current therapist isn’t a good fit, please find another. Nobody here is qualified to be your therapist.
You should probably find a new therapist if they’re not working out, we’re not trained professionals.
I’m learning so much here, I guess I didn’t mean it replaced therapy. It’s just that I was left in the dark with all that I was experiencing. Everyone here is so knowledgeable. I’m stuck with my therapist. Not too many good ones at the office, and I do not get anything from this therapist at ALL. If I told you the ways the case manager I have now acted, you would be baffled. So I have a bad treatment team. I understand you guys aren’t qualified to be a therapist, but now that I am on this site I don’t think I need one.
Do therapists monitor meds? Not being sarcastic. I don’t know
Thanks, I know that
Therapists don’t normally do a lot with meds.
Your therapist has no control over your medication. Only a psychiatrist or nurse practitioner can adjust your meds, and they almost always require an in-person visit to do so.
How does my PA know about my symptoms though if my therapist is so removed from me? She can be saying anything to the PA. Unless she knows more than she lets on… It’s hard being a full grown adult communicating with a PA, because when I was an adolescent my therapist I had pretty much spoon fed the things for me to say to the psychiatrist, and she would make me remember it. Now it’s a lot harder and 1 dimensional
They should all communicate via your chart and your records. And when you see your perscriber, you can discuss any concerns. I know it’s a pain. I only get to see my NP once every three months, for fifteen minutes. She knows nothing about me. But she gets notes from my therapist, and reviews them.
Ok. I understand
Does your therapist discuss coping strategies and ways to problem-solve with you?
No she talks about goals that I never go through with, and the rest is pretty much me talking about anything on my mind. She’ll ask me questions and make me notice patterns by saying “do you recognize that pattern?” But a couple months ago I asked her to stop talking a lot because it makes me disconnected. The icing on the cake was when I got lost in my thoughts and what woke me up from it was a text. So I guess it’s my fault she’s that way
Therapy depends a lot on the quality of your therapist, and a lot on the amount of effort you put into it. Mine gives me homework assignments, but I asked for them.
After I woke up, my speech was really slow and I couldn’t tell the distance from where the nurse was when she walked in. I probably have to start having a stronger mind and not get disconnected when she talks.
These good and bad days suck gahhhh… can’t online forums like this ease you into connecting with new people when eventually you get a job or volunteer? I went to the store today with my boyfriend and I was concentrating on everything, I even had a plan when I was at the register to buy next time Im there the dinner rolls you bake. I want to believe I’m improving but my brain is unpredictable, 2 nights ago I was watching tv and I thought I was dead, I was talking funny and it was sending me messages. I’m not like that ALL THE TIME. So then it doesn’t bother me until something happens again. Right now I don’t feel like I have symptoms of SZ. Good, bad, bad, good, good, bad. Story of my life. But this forum is helping me cope with the glitches.
I get better info from here than I do therapy. I can’t change therapist…clinic has just one and I despise the other clinic. Here you get support and no one belittles or blows off your symptoms.
It’s hard to don’t receive enough attention.As I understand,you are not looking for replacement on forum,just feels alright to be here.
Ever since I found this forum, I haven’t needed therapy either I noticed. Here on this forum, I can vent all I want and get the support and socialization I need without ever having to leave my apartment or making an appointment. It’s available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and totally free. Can’t get better than that.