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Old Aug 04, 2016, 07:28 AM
aarya10 aarya10 is offline
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Originally Posted by ThisWayOut View Post
I'm sorry your t sounds so invalidating around your struggles. It must feel so lonely going there for support and coming out feeling like you are constantly failing...

Sometimes even the best-intentioned t's just don't mesh well. With a limited pool of resources, do you think it might be worth trying to talk to t about how invalidated you feel? There's always going to be someone whose "had it worse", but that doesn't really change the fact that your history is causing you problems. Maybe ask t what their intentions are in reminding you to be grateful? Or reminding t that one can be grateful it wasn't worse and still be hurt by what it was?

If that's not something you either feel comfortable doing, or think it won't help, perhaps talking to gp about another referral might be a good idea. Current trends in competent trauma treatment (at least for the us) include validating your feelings and experiences rather than negating your response...

Thank you!

I don't think I'm brave enough to talk about this to my therapist. I already feel like they think my problems aren't bad, telling them this would make me feel more self-conscious and embarrassed.

I've been to various therapists and I've not had any luck. My father would kill me if I were to switch to a different T. There's no way I can deal with this but to just accept that at least I have someone to vent to. Either that, or I quit altogether and deal with things myself.

I really don't know what to do, I feel so stuck. I wish the MH system here were better.
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