Hi Jacq, welcome back!
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Originally Posted by jacq10
I can't very well go in and say that I just need support, and that I don't have any "presenting, immediate concerns" just chronic ones?
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Why not? As I remember it, Marsha Linehan observed that many of her and her colleagues' patients were constantly bouncing from one immediate concern to the next, so much so that neither they nor their therapists ever had much time to engage in actual therapy. She developed DBT to help patients deal more gracefully with their immediate concerns so that they
would be more available for therapy. It sounds to me as though, without that many immediate concerns to distract you, you're already ahead of the game.
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I guess what it comes down to, is me using the system (instead of someone else) who would probably benefit more from seeing a T. I can function on my own, I have been for a while now..... I just know that when I have a T, things seem to go better.
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I have an idea -- why don't you start by telling your prospective T exactly that, and let him or her decide what to ask you next?
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