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Originally Posted by giddykitty
haven't checked in in awhile. on my last week of hosting guests. i've mixed feelings about them going. Hopefully it's not to difficult of a change.
We've plans for one last hoorah before they go. out of town trip. I'm nervous and anxious as hell about it, but excited too. Nervous because our last outing didn't go very well. Ahh well. Can't be afraid, right?
p.s. I got a book on some basic DBT principles. I know this is more for borderline personality disorder, but i think it's helpful for me too (dependant personality as well as just my anxiety and emotions). It's helpful, except that I forget to practice it. ha! like I only remember right after I read a chapter, then it's all practically gone again. i dunno
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DBT I think has many purposes. I don't know much about it (in fact, I didn't even hear of it until I joined this forum), but I have been researching it online now, and it seems to be the go-to therapy for eating disorders now. It's used for anxiety too, I believe. I understand about reading and completely forgetting stuff though.
Have you looked into trying to find a therapist who does DBT? I have a therapy appt. coming up today; the therapist likes to do CBT at least which basically is how I've gotten out of eating disorder relapses in the past though DBT might help me more. I need therapy fast though because of an investigation with CPS due to my mental issues, and the CBT therapist could get me in fast, so I am going to give her a good chance, unless she pulls something like one past therapist I had in college. I'd been seeing that therapist maybe 2 months when I came to an appointment (consider I had to book appointments around my university courses, so time was important to me). One time I sat there over an hour and a half waiting for her. Finally, I went to the reception desk, and the receptionist said, oh, didn't she call you? She just called telling me she decided to take off the rest of today because she got delayed by a traffic accident near the mall. Consider I lived in a college town, the population of which was highly composed of university students. It only had a few major roads with lots of lanes (no freeways in town), and unless the traffic accident had been huge enough to make the news (it wasn't), it could not have delayed her more than 30 minutes. She said she'd call her clients to cancel, the receptionist told me. (That was one of the more major streets in the city with tons of stores and places a person could pull off the road to use a cellphone.) I did have a cellphone then, she had my number (granted smartphones were not something most people could afford, but basic cellphones were out there, and most people had one, including me & the therapist). She did not call my cellphone. When I got back to my apartment, she hadn't called there either as there was no message on my answering machine. I stopped seeing that therapist because of her inconsideration, not even calling her receptionist until she was very late and decided it wasn't worth finishing the day.
I hope your trip out of town goes well.
