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Originally Posted by guilloche
Thanks for saying all this SkyscraperMeow. I just got back from therapy tonight, and am feeling very, very similar. It's been brewing awhile, and it sucks. My T is super expensive ($250/h) and after 9 months, I'm feeling *worse* than I did, and not feeling hopeful at all of things getting better. I believe that he wants to help. But, I'm starting to think he can't. And that frankly, I was doing a better job of getting my life together before I decided to go back to therapy. At least I wasn't constantly stressing about going broke.
(And he wants me to go to DBT classes, which will cost more money. There is no more money for therapy-related stuff, I'm completely tapped out just paying for this.)
I don't get it. I really *wish* I could be somebody who benefits. I wish I could walk out feeling stronger, more confident, and more than anything *understood*. I'm beginning to think that that's just not something I'm going to get from therapy, so too bad for me.
 It sucks. And, I'm really sorry you're in the same rotten boat too.  |
I just realized your thread has the same title as mine, or rather mine has the same title as yours! It's pretty hard to stomach paying $250 per hour for something that makes you feel worse, isn't it? In fact, it makes me wonder if the real sickness (if there is any) is being willing to pay through the nose for what amounts to nothing.
Therapists seem to put a whole lot of value on being understood. I don't really care if the therapist understands, and besides, the way they conduct themselves tells me that they don't seem to understand people in general terribly well.
Each session seems to leave me a little less sure of myself, a little more resentful and a little poorer!