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Nov 22, 2013, 07:40 PM
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Member Since: Dec 2012
Location: California
Posts: 2,248
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Originally Posted by innocentjoy
Can I ask how you expect therapy to work unless you spend time outside your appointments putting into place the skills you are learning? The whole point of therapy is to learn to better manage the ups and downs of life. Any 'homework' I get is mainly suggestions on how I can use what I'm learning in my real life, so that I'm not just going in for a very expensive conversation, or vent session.
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I have NEVER been given homework in therapy, and all my therapists would tell you that I do my work in therapy. Two of them are very well respected in the community. One of them, not so much - my bad in choosing her.
I wonder how you go from no homework to the time being very expensive conversation or a vent session. I would say that my sessions have never been either.
I would say that no homework doesn't mean I don't learn and apply outside of my session. I'd say it means I don't need anyone to suggest how to learn, that I'm capable of being self-directed and responding as life comes at me in unpredictable ways. I actually think that is unfair to say. I think some homework is probably very useful. And some of it not so much. Just as I think therapy without homework can be very useful, and sometimes homework may be useful.
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