I feel so grateful that I’ve been able to see a CBT-therapist through the national health system. I am very treatment motivated and try my best to seize every moment I have with my therapist. I couldn’t afford to go to private therapy.
He is affertive, he has integrity and a good feeling for his professional role. He’s been working with psycotic patients for more than 20 years.
Luckily I don’t feel in love or anything like that. I hope I don’t depend on him or have become addicted to the therapy. But I am worried I will feel completly lost when I can no longer go and see him.
I feel very much the same. We recently got into this discussion about catching, checking, and changing thoughts. I too feel pressured to show progress although I’m glad to be part of a therapy group. I still got a way to go before I complete the program.
I met my psycologist yesterday. I will see him again some time. Very happy about that. I used to go to something called NECT (Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy). It is a training for people with experience of psycotic illnesses to learning to notice and deal with self-stigma. It was a group talk. I can strongly recommend it if you can find a group like that. Good that you’re pleased with your current therapy:+1:
Glad it helped you. It makes me more hopeful i will profit from my own therapy which starts today. It’s called “dialectic behavioural therapy” and is a kind of cognitive therapy.
Hope you can benefit from what you have learned even after the sessions stop.
