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Originally Posted by mcl6136
Mine seemed cold too when I had this recent (this week) melt-down in therapy. It was clear that any objection that I might have about the process of therapy was just that: my objection and not necessarily her problem or anything in need of alteration for my benefit.
Therapy has been a way to cordon off the time on a weekly basis to review "where I am" and hash out the day-to-day issues along with setting goals, which I have largely met (with the exception of one long-term goal the I wanted to tackle that blew up dramatically).
I feel in large measure that I have been "on my own" in a fairly comfortable space, working things out by thinking aloud, which has been valuable. HOWEVER, I sometimes think I could have done that with a good solid journaling effort, talks with close friend, or in the company of a gold fish.
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I’ll be honest there are times during a crisis or drastic event in my life that I look at my phone and I’m about to text my G and then I’m like forget what’s the point. I can rant and explain what horrific experience I’m having and what there is to come next and she’s MIA. They’ll be no answer or anything. Basically I have to resort to my own methods of coping which is something that I’m trying to battle. I end up giving in to my coping methods which I should be working on. Then two weeks later you walk into a session but a million and one things happened since because remember there was a crisis going on.
Really what I’m using therapy for at times is to just here myself talk and vent about not the last two weeks because you can’t fit that in 40-45 min. Basically it’s take whatever you think up first and blurt it out. Whether something constructive or not comes from who knows. My T won’t change her methods to adjust to my situation. So either I adapt to her way which I have no idea what that is in the 5 years I’ve been seeing her or I figure things out my way with my coping skills. I tried journaling but that never worked for me and my friends have their own issues and don’t want to hear mine. So yes therapy has become an expensive way to vent.