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Dec 20, 2012, 08:58 AM
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 I do not understand how T thinks that drudging up things that happened 45 years ago will help me. All it does is causes me to feel more horrible about my self. I feel like im digging up the old remains of dead bodies and the smell and sight of them are making me so sick to my stomach that it makes me want to vomit. Old marmories of pass hurts and feelings of guilt over them and everything that has happened in my life are causing more and more self hatred and my voicers are becoming more and more disgustingly mean and self distructive. I do not feel that this is helping and I am beggining to hate going to T. Am I the only one who has this result from T talk?
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Dec 20, 2012, 09:01 AM
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Why did you enter therapy?
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Dec 20, 2012, 09:02 AM
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I have schizophrenia Parinoid type... but T is focused on past Abuse issues
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If you have come here for support, you might as well leave cause I have none to give. Im simply broken and can not be fixed.Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words...be careful of your words, for your words become your actions...be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits...be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character...be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny. |
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Dec 20, 2012, 09:08 AM
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We exam the past to understand the now.
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#5
Dec 20, 2012, 09:24 AM
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If you have a severe illness (like schizophrenia), you may not benefit from dredging up the past. I know it hasn't benefited me, and so my therapist focuses on five minutes of yesterday, today, and five minutes of tomorrow. I'm exaggerating a little, of course. I mean, sometimes we'll talk about how I coped with things in the past. And my therapist has an amazing memory for all the little vignettes of my childhood so that if she has to, she can make temporal connections. But it's not at all a heavy focus of my therapy and this is fine with me.
If you're having problems just coping with life day-to-day, it makes sense to focus on the "day", in my humble opinion. If you disagree with the backwards-looking direction of your therapy, there's nothing wrong with requesting that your focus be more oriented in the "here-and-now" world of concrete and reality. |
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Dec 20, 2012, 11:21 AM
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I agree with autotelica. Tell your T that you don't think that talking about the past is good for you and that you want to focus more on the present.
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Dec 20, 2012, 12:12 PM
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I haven't yet figured out how talking about anything with a therapist is supposed to help anything. I do think one can tell the therapist one does not want to rehash the past.
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