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Originally Posted by justafriend306
It is like learning to drive a car from an instructor. The instructor doesn't make you a good driver of a car. They instead guide you and give you skills - you have to be willing to learn them and ready to observe and accept them when they come. You also have to be willing to accept criticism and learn from mistakes made.
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Buy my therapist didn't give me any skills. I kept asking for more - practical coping skills, ways to deal with my emotions. All she wanted to do was talk about my childhood.
I know I mentioned it in another thread, but I tried (for the 4th time) to talk about how I wasn't making any progress to see if I was doing something wrong. I had literally asked her if I was doing it wrong. Instead of talking about that she steered the conversation to my mother. Again. After I'd just spent 10 minutes telling her I didn't find that helpful.
I went out of my way - self help books, support groups, even self help apps - to do things to make progress. None of the progress I made (I made some headway with my social anxiety because I just forced myself to go to social events) had anything to do with what we talked about.