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Old Jun 06, 2014, 12:42 PM
ifst5 ifst5 is offline
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I'm sorry you're struggling. What help do you receive for your other conditions? How good is the coordination between different types of care? If it's poor or if your general team is largely disinterested it can be very difficult to know how to progress. As i understand it, simultaneous forms of therapy are usually avoided anyway but of course that makes prioritizing different treatments pretty tricky. The PD psychologists i had weren't very interested in my other conditions either. I believe their refusal to acknowledge the co-morbidity was a major factor in me dropping DBT. I have a very poor CMHT and it took a long time for them to refer me to the PD team. Once i'd been referred they were even less interested and i couldn't expect a PD team to take on their job too. So i was struggling with a kind of therapy that has a lot of known methodological problems while the general team were dropping the ball on everything else. What hope did i actually have? It's very frustrating because as patients just how much responsibility can we take for professionals simply not doing their job? It may be that this kind of therapy is also ill-suited to you. There are other options, if you're finding the overly-conceptual nature difficult to relate too, MBT or more structured forms of psychotherapy might be better. What does your consultant make of all of this? Maybe go back to the source as it were and see if this is an issue that can be carefully untangled. I wish you the best.