A question of all of us that suffer from depression.. I guess I have never thought about this ... I am not sure why... I have entered into another... wall of depression.. the kind thats stays for a few months.. for me with DID.. there is the "speeding train" depression... and then this..
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?????question.. when you are really depressed for months at a time... do you find that therapy does any good at all?
do you just go into session and say "i',m depressed..."
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My last T.. lost it one day... she just started "ranting and raving" about how I was driving her up a wall because I was always depressed... I mean she really lost it and didn't mean to.. was not a "therapy ploy".. sheis human and I was driving her "nuts"... she apologized.. but it really was the end of therapy for us... or the beginning of the end...

If you would give me your thoughts, I would really appreciate it...

(((((((((((freewill))))))))

I wish Icould answer that. I feel better at the moment knowing I have a therapist at last. But then I feel depressed cos of all the crap that's being remembered and brought to the surface - but I know it will help in the end.
The therapy I've had before was within a group of people with many different problems, I didn't find that helpful.
I offer you a hug and lots of love, your t shouldn't have lost their temper - so unproffessional. You are depressed for a reason, you are there for help. I'm sorry I'm rambling, I wish I had an answer.

love, Jinny, please pm me if you need to talk.

xoxoxoxoxoxxo

[Mouse_]

Freewill, I'd question the T's proffesional ablitys. It sounds like there was a lot of projective Identification going on...and your T bit it....

[Pita]

I am not sure that therapy helped me actually get over the depression any sooner - what it did was give me a safe outlet to express my feelings, my inescapable sadness. My T was very intuitive and patient and even though I did not open up a lot she was very good at asking the right questions and not leaving me dangling. Something it sounds like your T was not always good at. I am never good about talking about my feelings to family or friends - they think I am the "tough one." When I had first bout of absolutely numbing depression, my best friend told me to just "get over it." She later told me that she was afraid because if I could end up with depression then she could. Oh Well. Did not mean to ramble on - if T gives you an outlet to talk and it feels better, I'd keep at it. Take good care of yourself.

[wickedwings]

therapy helped with many things, but never got me out of my depression.....

[stefano]

When the acute episode is on, you can do little because the anguish seems to be disconnected from what you do in life. This is my opinion. Of course it implies that one must work hard when the symptoms fade. Remember the pain and use it as motivation.

Therapy is tuff,..you have to do so many things on top of having the problems you came there about. But it helps...in time...
***freewill**** I care...message me anytime ya need a ear.

Dustin

[Perna]

I always found (if your therapist can stand it) that the "support" of therapy when I wasn't doing well was totally worth it to me. I needed my therapist's hope, or at least the hope that she'd say something helpful to pull me from session to session until I could participate more actively.