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Originally Posted by Eleny
At the moment it feels as though I'm going around in circles. Every session is the same. She asks me why I didn't go to AA this week. She asks me do I not want to have a good life. She asks me why I continue to drink.
I think she's trying to reinforce reality but I don't think it's working. There are some very positive aspects to my therapy of course but this is just a huge stumbling block.
Do you have any advice? I feel so lost. Thank you.
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You said in one of your comments that your T has said you should carry on seeing her, that’s a bit of a red flag for me. When I said to my T that I had been questioning whether seeing her was helping and whether I should carry on seeing her, her reply was that those were good questions to be asking. She didn’t offer an answer.
I think that there are different approaches that you can take in therapy. One is to try to tackle your drinking head on in therapy. This seems to be what your T is trying to do? Another, is not to talk about it at all, but to do relational work with your T talking about anything and everything and dealing with the emotions that might come in the course of this, hoping that this will resolve your drinking indirectly. I don’t know if that makes sense? I also don’t know if your current T is the right one to try that with? You seem to have a lot of motivation, as evidenced by you spending the time and money that you have so far.
I’m sure there are other approaches too.