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Old Nov 17, 2016, 02:03 AM
Cyllya Cyllya is offline
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Originally Posted by firecracker09 View Post
Tailoring treatment to each client's needs?
Different therapy techniques are used for treating different problems (and I don't mean the diagnostic label, but rather the contributing factors of the symptoms), so they have to tailor treatment.

For example, CBT is good for correcting cognitive distortions. If a therapist tries CBT when you don't have significant problems with cognitive distortions, they tend to end up stating the obvious, being needlessly argumentative, or just straight-up gaslighting you.

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Originally Posted by firecracker09 View Post
Is there a type of person that therapy may just not work for? I'm not thinking with a certain history or diagnosis, but more overall personality traits and characteristic. (ie. inpatient, defensive, overly sensitive, can't articulate feelings...)
I haven't been able to get help from therapy yet, and it seems that the reason is... I don't have the right problems! The benefits therapy is supposed to confer are things I seem to already have without therapy. Obviously, having those benefits is a good things, but (a) I'd still like help with my actual problems, and (b) it's darn frustrating to repeatedly get advice to go to therapy for my diagnoses.
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Diagnosed with: major depressive disorder (recurrent), dysthymia, social anxiety disorder, ADHD (inattentive)
Additional problems: sensory issues (hypersensitive), initiation impairment
Taking: amphetamine extended-release, sertraline