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Originally Posted by TheByzantine
Ygrec23, I can relate to what you are saying. More than a few times I have been told I have a personality not conducive to therapy. Again and again I was told I make things too difficult; I don't understand. I have debated with myself whether I was mentally defective or if the therapists were incapable of explaining themselves is terms I could understand.
This lady in the article was not satisfied with her life. I do believe something was wrong. Perhaps she was part of the problem in therapy. The therapist should have told her if that was the case.
One thing I am sure of is no therapist ever told me I had to have more intelligence to be his/her client.
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Dear Byz,
No therapist ever told me that I have a personality not conducive to therapy, but I really didn't. I truly resent the way they took my money and did not give me anything in return. I've never heard or seen a diagnosis, I've never heard from a therapist that they just can't get through to me (which was the truth). I would have had much more respect for a therapist who, after (say) six months, told me that I was wasting my time, which I was.
I NOW feel able to go back to therapy and make things happen, which for me is quite new. It's the result of the terrible times I've been through over the past three years. The pain has been so intense that I've been absolutely forced to start drilling through some of those defenses that until recently have just been too tough for me. It's true that I don't know what I'm doing, but I do feel that I'm doing something. And I believe that with a therapist's help, now, I'll be able to fix things to the point, at least, where daily life isn't so awful.
Take care.
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