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Originally Posted by WishfulThinker66
That kind of comment was entirely uncalled for. Rude, disrespectful, and belittling. Is there someone more senior to them (a supervising professional perhaps) you can approach?
In my group, the moderators come from the group of peers itself; but, they are given clear guidelines on how to proceed. Present at the meetings are several psychiatric nurses who are there only to observe. The most I have seen them do is hep a moderator regain control of a discussion.(thankfully they are not there to comment on or critically assess the participants).
Can you tell us, as I am curious, how your group operates? Is the discussion portion peer led or led by a professional? In what way does the Therapist participate? Are they an overseer? Are you encouraged to speak or do you find it intimidating?
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I guess I can tell my individual therapist.
I have before about the interpretations and they told me how her other clients that go there to the same DBT group experience this too.
Sure, so the group operates like this.
First everyone is sitting around a table and they say how they feel with a emotion. So say bob says I feel anxious and stress today or someone else say I feel numb. Some times well I notice two of them would go off on a tangent when they how they feel into what happened that week.
Then we do mindfulness lead by one of the therapist.
Then we do dairy cards and we go around a circle what we have done but it seems that has stop and so they only let someone speak if they want, so you get away with not doing the dairy cards really.
Then that’s when one of them will cut the other one and start talking and they go on and on about a skill they did and how it didn’t work Andrew they think what they doing is more effective, you give them advice but they ignore you and then they go saying the same story again. This can go for half an hour or 15 mins. We go over home work too.
Then we have a 10 min break and then we do what skill we learning that day.
We are given sheets and we don’t go through the whole sheet. So you can get away with not reading it if you wanted to. They have this discussion about it and the therapist writing stuff on the board. No one really response and if you do then they say I will pick one of you to speak kinda thing. To me it sounds like a threat. If you do speak then one of them will cut you off.
I domntoice one girl she would just draw small stars on the sheet or dots on the sheet the whole time for 2 hours and doesn’t say anything unles asked.
I find myself drawing as they go off the people talking and switch off because just forever going around circles. I notice since changed of therapist that has happened 2 months ago that I don’t do home work anymore either. I don’t understand when they explain stuff or get it.