Quote:
Originally Posted by Rapunzel
Okay, why go to the dental hygienist, dentist, or therapist at all if you are not interested in their advice? You pay them to try to make you healthy, but you don't want to work with them and do your part. They are all fighting a losing battle because they only have a chance to try to help you once in a while, and they can't make the changes in your behavior and thinking and self care that are necessary for your health. The best that they can do is advise you on what you need to do on a daily (or more frequent) basis. None of them can do it for you. It's like paying a contractor to build a house for you but you go there when they are not working and tear it down over and over. They are either going to tell you to stop sabotaging their work, or they are just going to quit.
|
Yeah - true if it's a very structured, CBT-style of therapy with homework and such. But what about those psychodynamic/psychoanalytic Ts? In my experience, I have felt like I'm stumbling around in the dark and trying to hit a moving target. What does my T want me to fing do already?! And then it sometimes seems Im on the right path and then I'm hinted at that I'm not progressing or expecting T has a magic wand. Um - no. I'm expecting that by committing to attend the weekly therapy on a very continuous and persistent basis, I can overcome this ****. And I'm making outward changes which I've always been able to do for the most part even before T (albeit with much agonizing pushing of myself) until I just got fing tired of the trying, trying, trying, trying, trying, trying ad nauseum. I mean, I'm still trying and falling down and back and forth. I'm not refusing to try. Idk. Please disregard if this makes no sense....Might just be me and my T
