Sad to hear that you also experienced bad terminations. To be in therapy for that long, a whole year and then be terminated, I think itīs very strange that your T didnīt see his/her knowledge limitations much earlier on.
Yes, I think she was very vague and just said a few sentences around the actual cause for termination, now leaving me very frustrated and sad. She said that I should try psycho analysis instead but just out of the establishment that I would benefit from talking more freely.
As psycho analysis is in a way a more "extreme" form of therapy I think it should be far more entended reasons than that?
Yes, I also think that a termination is correct if it just depends on the treatment form but as I donīt think any more extreme changes had come to the surface I canīt really trust her with her judgement. I still feel that if the kind of therapy was that wrong, why couldnīt she notice much earlier?
Itīs not about finding a new diagnosis, just that my T talked about the kind of therapy being wrong.
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Originally Posted by guilloche
Hi (((PaulaS)))...
Sudden termination absolutely sucks, and Ts seem to handle it SO badly. I've been through that with a couple Ts. One that I saw for a year, who sent me for a consultation and when I got diagnosed, told me that he didn't have experience with that issue, so couldn't see me anymore. Ouch.
From what you've said though... (see the quotes above)... it almost sounds like maybe something similar happened with you, and the T just did an AWFUL job of communicating it to you?
You mentioned a couple times that she thinks that the type of therapy she does isn't helpful to you. Do you know what type of therapy she does, if it has a special name? Some therapies, I *think* are actually not recommended for some patients - because they can make your issues worse (or, sometimes they just aren't seen as being effective for some problems).
If she thought that her type of therapy might not be helpful for you, or that it would make you worse (and assuming that is the only type of therapy she knows how to do) - she'd have to terminate. She's not ethically allowed to keep taking your money if she doesn't feel competent to help you with your issues.
It still absolutely sucks, either way. And not understanding why it happened sucks. And, well let's be honest, therapy just sucks anyway   - so I don't know if this is at all helpful.
I think the best thing is trying to find a new T, and starting to untangle some of this. As others said, it might help if you give permission to new T to talk to old T, to at least get some answers and closure...
Good luck, and I am very sorry you're having to deal with this!
(((PaulaS))) |