Yes, there is certainly such thing as too much therapy. There was too much therapy in my case when I didn't listen to the signals my body was telling me and pushed myself beyond my capacity to process traumatic material. Combined together with the incompetence and not very ethical behavior of some of my therapists this resulted in re-traumatization which offset whatever benefits I gained in therapy. In hindsight, I know that I should've listened to my own intuition and common sense more than to the therapists who ignorantly and dangerously suggested me to push through despite the great emotional distress I was experiencing. I should've taken long breaks, evaluated my therapy progress on my own and made a decision of when to resume therapy with a particular therapist or whether to resume it at all. I also should've considered other healing methods instead of therapy. In other words, what I have learned is that if it feels like it's too much it's too much. Period. No one else knows my process and what's good or not good for me better than I do. Even when I make mistakes I still know myself better than anyone else and I learn from my mistakes.
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