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Old Sep 01, 2016, 01:26 PM
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I don't currently go to therapy (though I should) but when I did, it was SUPPOSED to be every two weeks but it was closer to once every 5 weeks. I much prefer it to be every two weeks. But that's what you get when you go to your uni's free clinic haha
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Old Sep 01, 2016, 03:26 PM
NoIdeaWhatToDo NoIdeaWhatToDo is offline
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When I was going to therapy, I went once a week. I found it TREMENDOUSLY helpful. I did that for several years, but she and I worked pretty diligently on building my coping skills. We kind of got to the end of what she could teach me for where I was at the time. Her door is always open if I feel like I need to go back.

I've had depressions since seeing her, but I try really hard to use the skills we worked on together. It helps me to cope, even though it obviously doesn't take the depression away.

I'm a very results-oriented person, so I stopped going because I didn't feel like there were more results to be achieved. It started to feel like I was paying someone to just listen to me like a friend would. I prefer to 'talk' either with my husband or a friend, or on here.
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Old Sep 01, 2016, 08:51 PM
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I go every week.
Therapy is so crucial for me that I drive 2.5 hours and into another state to meet with my therapist. I had been living in the same city. Then I moved and tried a different therapist, and it went really badly, so I started commuting back. He isn't working on our usual day next week due to the holiday, so I'm going to have 10 days between sessions. I'm already stressing from it.

Like BeyondTheRainbow said, I need someone around when I'm low or in an episode because I can't think clearly. I tell him the thoughts and feelings in my head, and he tells me a different way to think about it, and we make a plan for how I'm going to cope that coming week.

Once a week works perfectly for us. Longer than a week, I'm bursting with stuff to talk about. If we were to meet more often than weekly, I think I'd run out of things to say.
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Old Sep 01, 2016, 09:48 PM
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I go biweekly which is good for me as I have so many plates spinning lately...I am overwhelmed with my responsibilities at times.
My therapist helps me to realize ANYONE would feel overwhelmed and it is NOT just the bipolar.
If you go less frequently at least you have a professional to check in with should you need it.
I find it worse to stop therapy and start all over.

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Old Sep 07, 2016, 02:18 PM
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I go to therapy through my school. I see my therapist once a week for one hour. I like it but bcasue its through a pscyh college, I get a new therapist every years so that is always tuff to go through.
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Old Sep 07, 2016, 02:24 PM
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T weekly and DBT weekly, both on Thursday
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Old Sep 07, 2016, 03:33 PM
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I just had my initial screening awhile back, and see my assigned T in a few weeks from now. They set it up for an hour every two weeks. I thought that doesn't seem like enough to get much done very fast but I shall see how it goes.
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Old Sep 07, 2016, 04:13 PM
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I see my therapist currently every week, but originally it was about every 3 weeks and my doc is every month. I am hoping at some point my pdoc will say I can go back to seeing the therapist just every few weeks, but that won't happen anytime soon I'm sure because of the way I've been feeling.
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Old Sep 07, 2016, 06:13 PM
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I go to therapy twice a week. I have done so for about 17 years. I think therapy is very helpful in helping me deal with my Bipolar I diagnosis. I have a good relationship with my therapist of 9 years. He is also my pdoc and manages my medications.
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Old Sep 07, 2016, 10:18 PM
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I don't go at all. I tend to get annoyed with therapists within a couple of months and drop them without notice. Just make up an excuse to call instead of making another appointment at a session and then never call. Every once in a while though I get the urge to go again, I find a new one, and the cycle continues.
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