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Old Dec 28, 2017, 10:18 AM
MRT6211 MRT6211 is offline
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Thanks guys, maybe someday psychodynamic might have applications for me if it’s done properly. The problem might have been that my therapist was fresh out of grad school and didn’t know what the hell she was doing. She would bring up stuff from my past/uncover repressed memories and then just leave me to wallow in them without actually helping me work through them in any way. She also didn’t give me any help or solutions to deal with my symptoms between sessions, instead she just had me coming in more and more for therapy...eventually I was seeing her 3x a week. It just didn’t work out for me. I’m at a time in my life where I need a more solutions-focused approach because of the rigors school, dredging through old stuff just doesn’t seem useful to me in any way now. Instead I need to be able to cope in the moment, I guess. I do think CBT does work on the root cause if the therapist is doing it right. Right now my T focuses a lot on core beliefs, how I developed those core beliefs, and what I can do to work through those negative core beliefs to build a better tomorrow. Seems more useful than making me feel emotions and then bro helping me with those emotions, but that’s just me personally I guess.