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Originally Posted by Elsewhere
I am glad you are meeting with your Ts together...I hope it's very helpful for you.  I imagine a joint session should be quite useful in planning the best ways to move forward in your therapy!
I also hope you are able to tell your psychologist that you hope to see them at least once a week...I know it's hard for me to reconnect if I am I unable to do so (I am also in therapy partially for depression and anxiety). I don't think it's weird at all to feel that way at all, btw. I think a lot of people on this board only feel heard and understood by their Ts...I know that's how I feel. (And I see 2 as well...I know one gets it. It's hit or miss with the other one.  )
Can you talk to your Ts about coping skills that you can use? I personally have a constant level of high anxiety and haven't found very much to help (besides writing one of my Ts emails between sessions...then we talk about what I wrote when I see him). |
Yeah, I think a joint session could be quite useful as well. I mean, they both know what I need in different areas (well, all the areas are connected but still) so it's time to do something with that knowledge and come up with a good way forward because this meeting-up-once-every-two-or-three-week situation isn't great for me.
I tried to ask the psychologist about coping skills yesterday. Well, I asked her what the heck to do when I feel so depressed when leaving the session. I'm not sure I understood her answer to that question. She talked about making choices. That I should choose to do activities that I might not feel like doing but do them anyway because they're good for me and they're normally things I like doing (reading for example). She also said to try to stop doing things because I have to and do things because they make me feel better. I don't know
how to do that when I don't feel like doing anything and everything I do feel like obligations/things I
have to do (I
have to study, I
have to meet people and be social even though I don't want to just to distract myself from thinking etc. etc.). It's a bit difficult to explain. Do you know what I mean?
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Originally Posted by CantExplain
Is there a support line you could call?
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Probably. I don't really see how that would help though. I've called one before (a year or so ago) but it only made me feel like an attention seeker and like they probably thought I was annoying.