What Are You Working On?

What are you and your therapist currently working on? We're working on something called thought stopping, trying to disrupt negative thoughts with distractions.

CBT T---driving phobia
health management --including fitness, sleep hygiene, physically taking better care of myself

Anxiety management

Main T--Not sure these days? It feels a bit aimless but he is important in my life. He tends to repeat things--purposefully---to remind me what he's tried to teach me----mindfullness, questioning thoughts that might not be accurate/reality testing etc.

I don't have any ideas on what we working on. I just show up. I think she is working on me asking for what I want.

Still working on med compliance, episode contanment, and have recently started talking about ED.

Why I feel abnormal.
Why I feel rejected.
Why I feel incompetent.
Why I worry about stuff.

And so forth.

Working on trying to improve my schema modes and making the healthy adult mode stronger and the others weaker

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Csa/other assault, needs, asking for help, coping skills, building trust, not being a pain in the ***...

Good question and to be honest, I don't think T and I are actually working on anything. Grrr. My T is totally non directional so it's just, I turn up and we go wherever my ramblings take us. I'd give a lot to be able to say, we are currently working on... just having that sense of 'we' would be nice...

And having the sense that T himself has some idea of what he/we are or should be working on, that would be nice too...

I am working on communicating with my wife, problems with school when I was younger, abuse, depression and anxiety. Also I am being assessed by another psychologist for ADHD, Aspergers and anything else.

Eating disorder
Depression
Sleep issues
Grief
Repressed anger
Too much and often irrational guilt
Falling for men who can't or don't want to be with me
Zero trust to people
Unable to make plans/think about the future

And lately, suicidal ideation.

Self-care - food, shelter, fitness.
Connecting more with other people.
Self-development.

Not hating myself, letting things go, not carrying guilt around forever
Self-care, eating, sleeping, exercising, routine
Communicating
Social skills, forcing myself to get out of my comfort zone and be around people, loneliness
Attachment, neediness
Independence
Future long-term goals
Identifying emotions
Completing everyday tasks - paying bills, making appointments etc.
Balance - no black/white thinking

Vocational t: identifying my passion and how to possibly integrate it into me looking for what probably is gonna be a mundane, mind-numbing, soul-sucking, dehumanizing job.

Regular t: relationships, social skills, realizing I can't control what others think of me (which can be quite freeing); to verbalize my thoughts, because no one can read my mind. Self acceptance. How to talk to my kids. Having positive experiences discussing difficult things with my T, and contrasting how unhealthy such a discussion would have gone with certain people in my life.

Trust.
Shame.

My parenting skills, particularly eliminating angry outbursts
Lack of fulfillment
PTSD - trauma processing and symptom work (ouchie)

umm, no idea actually!

Self harm, was working on trauma but found the whole ordeal really unsettling but I am doing more trauma work very soon.

She's working on getting her ducks in a row to open her office and resume her practice.

I'm working on not blowing a gasket and jumping off a cliff, while waiting for her.

When we're actually in the same room together, it's: self-worth, shame, sense of self, making choices that reflect my needs rather than others'. Reparenting, attachment.

Not much right now. Mainly using him to touch base and monitor how I'm doing. Lots of talk about dealing with my husband as he's been having a difficult time in more ways than one which has made my life very trying.

I think the 2 biggest things T and I are working are:
1) feeling my feelings instead of suppressing them
2) speaking what I am thinking even when I disagree

We are working on acceptance of bipolar as something I can't change. A mindfulness approach to it. Instead of fighting it all the time, just recognizing it for what it is. Using my energy on things I have control over, like diet and exercise, and letting the bipolar just be what it will be. (That feels like it made absolutely no sense.) That's what we're working on.

Eating disorder, body image, stress management.

I have no idea what the therapist would label it. She has mentioned shame before and the other talks about ptsd.

T actually talked about this this morning. Tha main things as he sees it are my self loathing, self-hatred, and delusion (his word, not mine) that I don't deserve a full and happy life.

stopdog - my T talks about shame all the time, too, but he views it as an affect that's not really possible to fix by itself. The underlying world-view has to change so that I don't react with shame, it's not the reaction that needs to be suppressed.

Currently we are working intensely on my eating disorder along with my rage and my opioid problem. Also trying to use more self positive talk. It's very serious and no nonsense right now and a bit overwhelming to be honest!