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Originally Posted by SlumberKitty
T last night didn't go well. It's not so much that it went badly, it just didn't go well. I kept trying to talk about how depressed I was and sui I had been, and she kept trying to tell me I need to do something creative, or something I enjoy and mentioned stuff like baking (no I do not enjoy baking). I get where she was going with that, like to try to bring some joy to my life, but when you are so far down the hole, you need something besides baking to make you be able to climb out of the hole. I found the whole appointment rather disappointing. I didn't get any real help for my depressive symptoms, or for the sui thoughts.
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Sorry it didn't go well. Hugs... I completely understand your reaction to what she was saying. My T will often talk about things like meditating or exercise or doing art when I'm feeling bad. I said if I was sitting on my couch sobbing, that doing a downward dog (yoga pose) wouldn't really solve that. T said, "Then you'd just be dripping tears onto the floor instead of your lap." Yet he keeps talking about various coping mechanisms. The main one that works for me is reaching out to other people, but he wants me to have stuff I can do completely on my own, that don't involve anyone else. Listening to music helps sometimes, or distracting by, say, watching TV or going to the store, but as I've also said to him, distraction only lasts so long, then the feelings come back. Sometimes I wonder if they really get what it can feel like...