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pinksoil said:
how much more could I be pushing myself, what could I be doing better.....

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Maybe it is the opposite, and that you shouldn't be pushing yourself so much. Maybe just sit back in therapy and let things happen. You have a great T. Sit back with him and relax.

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Sometimes it's okay to just be where you're at.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Yes!

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pachyderm wrote:
When therapy is not going well, is it always the fault of the patient? Is it always something that we are not doing correctly?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">pachyderm, I think there are many ways of doing therapy, not one "correct" way. Your T can give you guidance if you could be doing something in therapy differently that would faciliate progress--e.g. giving him more feedback, etc. Similarly, you can tell him what would help you. Pachy, RE what you wrote about the psychiatric interview, I think most therapists would be the first to agree that there are two people involved in therapy. It's a relationship.

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perna wrote:
I never saw therapy situations as faultable

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">I kind of feel the same way. I don't spend time wondering whose "fault" in therapy something is. I try to make as best use of my therapist's skill set as I can. My previous therapist had a different skill set. I was with her until I had exhausted it and then moved on to someone with different skills for what I needed next. It doesn't mean anything was her fault or my fault that we aren't still together.