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Originally Posted by Bill3
It sounds like your depression got worse at the thought of another session like the last one.
I think you are saying that you need to get deeper than simply focusing on how to cope. It sounds like that was the problem last week. You didn't feel any closer to being understood, to getting a senses of the causes of the problems, and/or to making progress on them. As a result, the session seemed pointless and made you feel hopeless.
What one or two topics might be entryways to getting a little deeper? Or maybe: What one or two topics are most on your mind?
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That lack of understanding was one of the things on the list I wrote for last week. I just didn't bring up my journaling until the end of the session.
So that's probably one. I'd like to explore my diagnoses further too. I feel like there could be something more going on, something deeper than the generic labels I have. PTSD is one thing I want to explore. I, at one point in the past, felt like I fit the criteria for it. Plus the panic attacks I was having a couple of weeks ago felt traumatizing, or like reactions to being traumatized, or something like that.
I do feel more depressed thinking about having another session like last week. There's more to it then just that today, but it's still there.