Thread: hopeless case?
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Old Nov 11, 2005, 10:44 PM
Anonymous29319
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Alot of people enter therapy because they know something is wrong and thats the "right theing to do" but yet even though its "the right thing to do" they still arent "ready" for therapy. boy was I one of those people.I was in therapy to be fixed not to do anything hey they're the professionals they do it thats what I pay them for right. So I bounced from one professional to another and getting mad when they couldn't fix me. and even though I didn't want to do anything I stuck it out for a bit. then I took a very looong break to the point where I was in danger of losing the most important person in my life - my son. I had no choice if I wante d my son I had to figure out what I had to do. I wanted to take it all on at once and be done and have my son home, and then I would get so overwhelmed that I wanted to quit, I just couldnt do any thing right so my therapist told me to stop just stop trying to take care of everything. we were going to do this one step at a time, one issue at a time. We picked one issue to work on and that issue we broke down into ALOT of little things to do. and then we took ONE little thing for example she asked if I journal I told her yea so the first thing she wanted me to do was keep a daily journal. Thats it. even if I sat down for 2 minutes and wrote the sentence this is stupid over and over again thats considered a journal entry. By the end of the week I was writing pages. (LOL my present therapist wont read my journals anymore because I write too much and she doesn't have the time for it.). Basically what I am getting at here is don't streess it just because therapy is the "right thing to do" when you are ready and you find that one goal that you cannot live without then the time will be right for you to do the work. In the meantime stick with it as long as you can taking it one issue, one step with that issue at a time. This may not feel like totally fixing you but it does give some relief. Take care.