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This is a really good question and something that has bothered me a great deal. I've made a lot of progress in therapy, but when I go into an episode, I feel that everything else -in therapy/other issues- necessarily get put on hold, and it's all about dealing with the episode, medication adjustments, going up, then the awfulness of lowering it again. My therapist helps me through this whole process, but I've wondered on occasion if he gets frustrated by things being put on hold like this, though this is probably me projecting --it frustrates the heck out of me!!
Luckily I only have a couple of episodes a year, but the whole process can take so long -the episode itself, then coming down on the meds which causes huge side effects- that therapy seems to go into this holding pattern. And then once the dust has cleared, it can take a while for me to readjust to therapy and try to continue where I had left off, which can be difficult. The thing is, things *aren't* exactly the same as when we left off anymore... Every time this happens, I feel like there's this subtle shift in me that has occurred that continues, within me somehow, after the episode is over.
So I don't have any advice, but am looking forward to responses here...
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