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Old Sep 08, 2014, 09:11 AM
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I'm not sure if my issue with my therapist is CBT or just the individual therapist himself.

At first, I really liked this therapist. Our first session went well, and he seemed like someone with whom I felt I could "click" personality-wise. Then at subsequent sessions, I started to feel almost like he was messing with me because how on earth can a therapist thing it's helpful to just repeatedly tell a client to think positively? His answer to everything is to either tell me to not worry about it or to ask me to find something positive in my life and then just think about that instead. He actually at one point told me to envision the day I graduated from college whenever I felt depressed or was in a bad situation. I'm sorry, what? I'm just supposed to walk around repeatedly envisioning myself walking at graduation all of the time? I told him I had to make a police report because someone called my house threatening to kill me (long story), and his response was, "Don't worry about stuff like that." I asked how the heck I was supposed to not worry about someone threatening to break into my house and kill me, and he said, "Well, there's nothing you can do until the person actually breaks in, so don't worry about it." Then when I told him I didn't agree that I should just stop worrying, and then all of my depression issues would lift, he just sat there dumbfounded unsure of what else to say to me.

Is this really all there is to therapy? Is this some kind of joke? Is it really an "a-ha!" moment for most people to be told to "think positive thoughts" by a therapist?