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Sep 04, 2012, 06:00 PM
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Member Since: Oct 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 6,543
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Bless your heart. I can understand what's going on.
For one thing, I'm going to suggest that you switch therapists and do it SOON. I suspect that you just do NOT "click" with this therapist. I went thru several therapists before I found one that I could really relate to. All the others just basically sat there and grunted -- I got no feedback from them at all. What is the point of going to them if they're not going to help me???  Why should I talk all hour if they aren't going to give me something I can use? It makes no sense. So I changed to another --- then another -- then another -- until I FINALLY found a WOMAN (Thank God) who actually TALKED to me, and gave me stuff that I could use! She was awesome!
So please find another therapist. You don't have to tell your current therapist -- when you have your appointment for the other one, about a week before, go to the office and tell them you need your records as you're going to another therapist. You might have to give them time to copy your files. You don't HAVE to give them a reason but if you want to be honest, go ahead!
I have clinical depression, and I'll have it the rest of my life. I'm also a VERY hard patient to treat according to my doctors. I'm medication-resistant. I've awakened on the operating table during major surgery 3 times! They couldn't give me enough to keep me asleep! They were afraid to give me much more but they HAD to in order to get me back to sleep cause they weren't done yet. I'm also a chronic pain patient, and the docs are afraid to give me enough to ease my pain -- so I'm in agony a good share of the time. 
BUT -- my doc has me on Cymbalta 65mg twice a day along with Abilify and that has done the trick with me. My depression has been severe ever since I was a small child, but i didn't get treated til I was in my 20's. So I'm amazed that this drug works so well. You might want to suggest it to your doc -- I don't know if it will work for you, but it sure does for me!
I wish you the very best. Please let me know how you do once you change therapists will you please? Private message me or something, but I REALLY want to know. God bless and take care. Hugs, Lee 
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