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Originally Posted by ImMentallyILL
Do you believe everything your therapist says about you?
Do you agree with the type of treatment and medications your therapist wants for you?
Do you believe you have a mental illness or a chemical imbalance in your brain?
Do you think your therapist knows more than you about your diagnosis?
Do you just let your therapist do their job by helping you and ignore thinking for yourselves?
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1) No, I don't believe everything my T says about me.. We are working on it though. In general he tries to point out that I am not a bad mom, not destined to end up like the rest of my family, whatever.. We have gone back on forth on wanting to label me as a perfectionist.. I say, no I just want to be better than I am now- he says that my standards are too and in order for me to be really happy I would have to perfect. I can't stand that I have flaws and that I could be a better person, but I am not right now.
2)I do agree with my treatment and meds. He does not rx meds, but he was the one who highly recommend that I go and talk to somebody about the meds. At first he said it was up to me, then when I was having panic attacks daily more than once, he said that for right now, meds and therapy are what was probably going to work best for me.. And what do you know. He was right, lol. As far as the kind of therapy.. Right now we really just talk, he has given me ways of getting past anxiety attacks, helped me see some of my distored thinking. We however not offical started any like cbt, yet.. However, that is where we are working towards.
3) I believe I have both a mental illness and a chemical imbalnce.
4)I looked at this question differently at first- Do I think my T knows more about my dx that me? Yes, as in.. I think he knows more than he tells me. I have never had any kind of offical diagnosis from him other than him stating that I was dealing with a server panic disorder. However, over course he knows more about my dx in general than I do.. He went to school for many years to study this stuff. I can read books, look up stuff online, but I think he will always have a better understanding than myself.
5) I think you are asking two different questions.. Do I let my T does his job? Sometimes, meaning I will take his advice, read something he suggests, practicer relaxation, etc.. Do I think for myself? Of course.. I think we all need to think for ourselves. I can see in situations when our cognitive distortions really mess with what we believe about ourselves aned sometimes we have to just give into the real truth instead of what we see, but I think that is a bit different than not thinking for ourselves.