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Originally Posted by learning1
I know I'm contributing to going off your topic of consultation t's, but this topic about legitimacy of therapy is very interesting. Thanks for the statistical data 3rdTimes.
Stopdog, usually I can't tell if your negative attitudes about therapy are based on real confusion or if they're based on you being angry and afraid of therapy. I think you really are confused sometimes.
When you say something exaggerated, like "complete fraud," then I think your negative attitude is because you're angry and afraid.
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Okay - would you believe partial fraud? I don't think I have a negative attitude - but certainly a skeptical one. I do not understand why therapy or what those people do has to be so mysterious and unexplainable or to succeed why a client has to roll over and let the therapist run roughshod.
I am angry and confused. I go along trying to do what I glean is the way to do it (not questioning everything and just letting it happen and going along with no framework or seeming order to any appointment) and then find out the t really does not have any reason or connection to the reason I went to see it for the questions I am being asked by the t. My feelings that no one knows what is happening seems justified at this point. I spent the appointment this week with the t going on about the holiday and what I did over it (holidays are not a big deal to me one way or the other and my life pretty much went along as usual)- I went along and answered the questions thinking surely it had some reason for asking the questions - and at the end the t admitted there was no specific reason for those questions. I do not know if this is usual therapy or not - hence the consult thing.