My recent therapist experience hasn't been much better than my past experiences. The reason I decided to try therapy again after a number of years is that the most effective combo in treating BP is meds and psychotherapy. So I kind of felt obligated to find a therapist. As a bit of backstory, I've been pretty stable on meds for the past few years. My last major episode was in 2015.

During my first therapist visit, he said his goal was to have me, "Doing well while not feeling well." I've now seen him four times, biweekly since then. During these visits he's diagnosed my present state to be moderately to severely depressed. This is based on a survey where I've expressed the fact that my mood is quite flat. His main criteria for doing well is to be doing well in my job and having a good marriage and family relationship.

Well, we've basically established that I'm doing well at my job, and have a good marriage and family relationship. Today during our session he said that I'm doing the things he could help me with, and as such didn't feel the need to be seeing me as often. He suggested monthly until the end of the year, and then quarterly or as-needed after that. It wasn't that anything was a problem, I just think he was out of options on how to help me live better.

I'm finding this whole experience to be rather strange. It's not that we've stalled out in our conversations or anything, and I actually felt quite a bit better after our previous session.

I don't know. I'm a bit frustrated at the whole experience, and figured this was the place I could find some perspectives. Anyone else have a therapist experience anything like this? My guess is no. But I thought sharing about it would be at least throwing it out there.

I just talked to my wife about it, and she had an interesting take. Earlier this year I had a bad experience with a trial of Wellbutrin. She said that at that time it would have been good to have an established relationship with a therapist who I could get in with easily and who could have been another perspective on the situation. This was a good point, as at that time if I had started the process of seeking out and establishing a relationship with a therapist, it would have been too late. At least now I have someone with whom I could get a quick appointment and with whom I could hit the ground running.

I guess I don't know what to think of the whole situation. If anyone has any thoughts, I'd certainly be open to hearing them.