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Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys
I feel like quitting therapy. I have a lot on my plate right now, I'm going back to school full time, working 28 hours a week, taking care of my daughter, I'm getting married in April, there just doesn't seem to be time for therapy, that and I'm sick of hashing everything out, I just want to get on with my life, I just want to ignore everything and focus on the work at hand.
Then I get fuzzy headed, ears ringing, in and out of consciousness... And I have to see a neurologist. Who knows if I'm having physical problems as well, and if/when I see this neuro it's likely going to cause me to go back into the psych field from stress... But I don't have time to have physical or emotional problems, and I don't want them. I just want to ignore it all and distract myself. It worked for a few months last year, before the second seizure.
I cancelled t's appointment this week, was my fiances birthday and I had a lot of school work to do. We have an appointment next week but for the following two weeks after he's getting surgery so he wont be in for a while, I may just stop after next week, idk if I even want to go next week, I just want to be normal...
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After all the trouble you went to to find this therapist, are you willing to throw it away and not make the time to go see this therapist you have wanted and jumped through hoops to get?
after you drop this therapist, will you be prepared for more stress and scary days/nights of having problems and not having any therapist to go to?
my first suggestion is before you drop this person read all your past posts and really look at what your past year of posting has been about, what kinds of problems and stressors you have gone through without having a therapist to go to, to talk over your problems and daily stressors with.
then decide if you really want to go through all that again.
your wedding is in april... to me that sounds like theres still plenty of time to plan a wedding and all that comes with getting married. heck you can even do that with your therapist by taking what you are doing and your stressors, worries and accomplishments with planning this wedding, with you to talk about with your therapist. therapy isnt just hashing out the past. therapy is also how are you doing right now today kinds of stuff, my therapist was a fantastic help in being a sounding board for my pre wedding stressors and again she was fantaistic let me ramble on and on for sessions about how everything came together at the last minute and what a great time and stresors along the way, that my wife and I had.
therapy isnt just about the past, its so you have someone to go to to talk the daily good and the bad over with, so that it doesnt just stay ruminating inside and then causing problems at a later time.
I seriously think you need to really take things one step at a time and really think about what you are doing before you make a rash decision to drop out of therapy after all the hard work and waiting you did in trying to get a therapist to begin with. I really dont want you to go through this past couple yrs of what you have posted about over again just because you want to throw away this therapist after all this for reasons of "not having the time to go", "getting married" "got to see the neurologist"
my opinion is that if you have time to make the long thought out posts on here that you do, you have time to go to a therapist and say Hi Im having a great day today or Im having a horrible day today. spend a few minutes talking, unloading your daily stress and then leave.