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Old Jan 15, 2013, 02:30 PM
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Lilmercy...therapy for PTSD is the same as therapy for anything else...a person goes in to therapy with a problem and during the therapy sessions they work with the therapist to solve that problem. I see by your post you have been in therapy for 2 yrs.. I know after all that time it may be hard to come up with topics to explore during therapy.. what helps me is I keep a journal about how my day goes, how my nights go, then on t he day of therapy I skim my journal to see if theres anything in there that hasnt resolved itself or was too much for me to take care of. then i go in to therapy and tell my therapist about that problem and she helps me figure out the problem and how solve it...for example i have therapy today. I see in my journal one of the problems that has not resolved itself and i have been too busy/and the problem was a bit too much for me to take on this week is how i feel about losing my home. since the hurricane I have been taking care of others, helping others that have lost their homes and stability and its getting to the point where I may have to make some hard choices in order to take care of me now in this, saying no to others in crisis isnt always my finer points. so Ive got all these emotions that have cropping up here and thats where I need to go today in therapy.

so take some time, think about your life today and maybe you can come up with something that isnt the way you want it to be today.. write that down, maybe you can keep a journal where it will be easier for you to see what you need your therapists help on, like I do.

after being in therapy for 2 yrs you already know what your therapy process is like, i mean how else have you spent the past two years ....working on your problems right....thats all therapy is about regardless of what the mental disorder is..