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Sadly it is only a doctors job to figure out (guess) what medications they can prescribe that can cover up the symptoms. If we get better & don't need the medications, they no longer have us paying them for their job.
Therapists on the other hand, it is their job to teach us skills we can learn to apply to our own lives to help ourselves function better. Sometimes it cures the problem, sometimes it just makes us more functional while still having the problem. They can only teach the skills, we have to do ALL THE WORK of implementing those skills. This is a lot of work needed on our own part in the process of healing.
I have gone through a lot of what you describe until years later I found the best therapist ever. Our DBT group & she individually taught me skills I didn't have, new ways of looking at things & reinforced the skills I did have. It is so wonderful to be well & functional & not just have symptoms covered up. We all have out limitations, but to be functional within those limitations should be our goal to work toward. I truly believe that the skills we learn to implement in our lives goes a lot farther in helping us than the meds doctors prescribe (some are necessary....but it is the skills that truly help)
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Leo's favorite place was in the passenger seat of my truck. We went everywhere together like this.
Leo my soulmate will live in my heart FOREVER Nov 1, 2002 - Dec 16, 2018
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