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Mar 18, 2012, 09:52 AM
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Member Since: Nov 2002
Location: Mid World
Posts: 18,129
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Most people are not that lucky. Most people do not have the willpower to do exactly what the doctor says, and most people don't do well in therapy. I think if you truly want to be healthy, you would do whatever it takes. For you, professional therapy is not the answer. Find another therapeutic tool you can use: cooking, art, therapy dogs, exercise. Essentially, you need to do what makes you happy and feel healthy. Therapy didn't make me happy, so I stopped going and I took up different hobbies as an outlet. This is just me, but I believe that you can achieve whatever you set your mind to if you have the willpower to do it.
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Dr. Skipper, real life is not so black and white. I worked my backside off in therapy. I did what my T wanted me to do. I was still depressed and still wanted to kill myself. He suggested I see a pdoc. The pdoc put me on meds. I kept working my tail off in therapy while the pdoc and I played with med combinations. Finally we found the right combination and my T and I concluded I had my mental health problems under control. My T moved out of state and I stopped therapy. I had the tools I needed and knew how to use them. Then for a variety of reasons my pdoc and I tried to wean me off the meds. I started wanting to kill myself again. I was using all the tools I learned in therapy. For the first time in my life the idea of killing myself scared the poo out of me. I got on the phone to my pdoc and we restarted my meds.
It's insulting to hear that all I needed to do was have enough willpower and I'd be OK. I had a ton of willpower. I worked my butt off and I was still depressed. Saying all someone needs is enough willpower and they will be better is the equivalent of telling someone to "snap out of it."
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