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Old Jun 02, 2014, 03:56 PM
Anonymous40413
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I have had to move therapists, the first after a little over a year, the second after around nine months. "Telling your story again", as you say it, is scary and nigh impossible. What helped me was to not try to continue where you finished with the previous T, but start over. Think back to when you first started therapy. What was the thing that was bothering you most? Usually, there is one thing that "just couldn't go on any longer like this", and what made you decide to enter therapy. I've peeked on your profile, and among your issues are PTSD and depression. One rarely seeks therapy because they have been diagnosed - one seeks therapy because certain symptoms are bothering you. (A T once told me she didn't think I was depressed because I didn't complain of loss of interest. I didn't talk about that because she hadn't asked, and it didn't really bother me that I'm not interested in anything, so I didn't report it as "things that bother me". What bothered me was feeling so very, very low.). Perhaps it was nightmares, insomnia, or you weren't able to force yourself to get out of bed or into the shower for four days in a row.

So you went to therapy. I imagine your first request was much like "Help me get over my nightmares", "I want to sleep at night again," or "I can't/can barely bring myself to get out of bed in the morning".

What does this mean? It means that you can find a new T, and tell him or her "I'm experiencing panic attacks, help me get over them."

You don't have to tell your whole story! You and your T can work on combating the panic first and foremost.

You might want to consider CBT: Cognitive behavioral therapy. It's very problem-solving-oriented. More about solving the problem than about examining how the problem came into existence.

Good luck, whether without therapy, with your current T, or with another T. :-)
Thanks for this!
globe mallow, Mactastic