Hello Skeezyks!¨

Thank you very much for sharing your experience!😊

I am not sure if I can afford trying out different therapists, the one I currently have is publicly funded and the usual waiting times now are one year. I was either lucky, or have looked really distressed in time of the assessment🙃 She would probably try to be helpful, though I have noticed that she tends to be too focused on her own interpretations and she is trained in CBT but may lack some other theoretical knowledge - I have already slightly suggested that some experience might have led to a pain-pleasure association and she didn't pick up on that. She approved this, but said that it's probably not relevant to the formulation, i.e. to my thinking styles and core beliefs.

The main problem here is that she has a student with her now and I can hardly imagine talking about this to just one person. This is the first time I have opened up about this even online and anonymously.

I hope that you have been able to process things well and that you lead a happier life now(?)