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I'm not sure if you are quitting meds or deciding not to start them.
Whether you are on meds or off them, I suggest you make no changes until you have been off therapy for a month or two.
There is a great temptation to quit everything at once but I don't recommend it!
Tapering off things is a good strategy. The mind and body sometimes react, or over-react to sudden changes in ways that can surprise us....
Take it slow, if you need to... and give yourself the time you need.
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01/30 My Therapist took me off the med I was on- LOL- Lot there- I am nto sure if this was normal for going through drugs, but she is the one that was like "get you off this drug" and when talking to her about it on that session- she did not think it was doing any good
Then this last session- she told me- you wouldn't stay on a drug any ways.
This woman is just a bad fit for me---
but i do agree- tapering off would had been good-
I have taken this experience and made up a list of things to ask a new therapist if or when if ever i go to another one.
One of the number 1 questions is-- IF you think you can not help me will you be honest? and if that, will you help me find someone you think maybe able to help me?
I think that is part of the problem here, I was honest with her in saying I was not sure if she could help me-- and I guess maybe I hit a nerve with her --
I think there are other factors here too..
She is a nice lady to talk to , i will say that
And Hankster
Sorry- I am trying to do 3 things at once and on 2 hours of sleep- i know
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Beauflow, you have made SO MUCH PROGRESS!!! don't let this misunderstanding or whatever it is with this T set you off course. You're right, I think the county requires you to have a therapist if you're getting meds from them. Can you get on a six-week schedule? that's what I did for a while, saw t and pdoc at the same location, same visit. it wasn't ideal but it got me thru for a while. i'm not clear on what's going on, what went wrong. but from your other posts, omg you've gone thru so much in your young life. and if stopdog's T can recognize that the only time she speaks from the heart is when she talks about her dog, then talking about your dog is FINE - your T was wrong or blind! I was talking about a PICTURE of a dog the other day and my T understood! Well he IS a dog person. Apparently that T is not. Fire her!   and thank you for posting to my birthday thread, that was very sweet!
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Hankster (HUGS) No thanks for well wishes to you
I have tried hard, and yes last August was a big step for me, and I tried so hard.
Like i was saying I think a lot of factors are with this
"not stable enough, but yet I dont need therapy".. Ok so basically I am fine till I am triggered is what i get from this-- which arent most like that too ? seems pretty human thing to me... But idk there is more to it.
She has been doing this "stable, not stable, who knows why you are here" sinc emy 2nd session with her, and then go on drugs, don't do drugs, and so on for a while-- and her forgetting what the hell I am tlaking about- forgetting what issues, and what not-- the whole time--
I think she would be a great therapist if she was not so over booked. but I think she looses sight, and i think she is over worked, and she has her own life on top of it (which she should).... but idk... Also one time we talked, and she was telling me about how with her job she has to be stable and at times she thinks she internalizes things-- maybe things are getting too much, and I am one to cut lose?
I am very thankful for my boyfrined-- the other day I was so upset i started to have a nose bleed, and I was uncontrolled with crying and trying to talk but I was shouting and not making sense... I am grateful for him for he talked to me, held me, and told me it would be ok.... I know he is not a therapist but for him to talk to me and we trying to find a solution and saying maybe down the road another try, i think really helps..... and in addition with how I was the other day- by myself, i am not sure about me some times... really mixed with emotions, and I can tend to get confused... I am sorry I rely on him so much some times when like this- but i am lucky to have him