Why do you go to therapy?

For me....I started going because well mostly when you leave the hospital they pretty much demand you have a plan in place for a T and Pdoc. I had a Pdoc but no T so I had to find one I could afford with no job or insurance. I had been in the hospital a lot....

So now I go because well I mean I like her and all but Im not 100% into it. I do tell her everything and do find times when I do really want to talk to her about things, but I don't really want to continue.

If I don't....my Dr...my friends at church etc...they'll all drive me insane!4

How long do you go?

I have been going to therapy for years. I just switched to a new t who is really helpful because she diagnosed me correctly and we are working on my trauma.. my old t didn't know how to handle that but I still found myself looking forward to my appts just as a way of maintaining balance in my life. I don't have much of a support system so therapy was a way of validating that I was coping in the best way possible, venting about the things I was stressing about and things like that. now I am working on really hard issues. I am having past trauma memories come up and I need someone to help me deal with those things. she helps me to realize what I am dealing with is normal so I don't freak out and end up in the hospital.

I initially started because I had been diagnosed with mood d/o by my pcp. In discussing issues with my t she compared me to kool-aid. You take all those little particles and add it to water and stir...together they make something else. Then she realized I was more like an onion. I had so many layers causing stress and depression that when you peeled would make you cry. So she referred me to T in order to work on those layers.

I am crossing my fingers for Stopdog to weigh in on this.

Mostly to improve my own well-being.

Me too!!

I went because I was having persistent Sui thoughts and they were scaring me. But I didn't really share this info. So basically the depression and anxiety was the focus without that detail added because I was afraid of hospitalization and burdening my T with it....since then it's become pretty obvious that I have some major issues with trust and attachment stuff. I have problems in my marriage. I have no real friends. I'm disconnected from others, my feelings, the difficult parts of my past that I can't remember and myself.

Original I went to avoid hospitalization. Now I go to learn how to track and control my bipolar.

People....I suck at closeness, basically.

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Because I'm trapped that's why! Ha. Well, I feel like I am sometimes. No actually originally I started with this T 2.5 years ago because I was searching for more help digging out of the depression-hole I was in, medication helped me climb partway out but my pdoc kept encouraging me to do talk therapy too, but for a year I didn't feel ready for that, finally I did and I'm so glad. Between the meds and the talking with T I climbed the rest of the way out of the hole, got the black cloud of depression out of my head. Then the reason I went to therapy became, I knew there was something MORE for me than "just" not being depressed anymore. That certainly was the understatement of the century!! If somehow I could go back in time and meet the "me" the day before I started therapy with this T, I bet I would not be able to recognize her as me I have changed that much and all for the better.

Been going for four years. I go mainly to work through my major depression and past traumatic events. It definitely helps.
The first t I ever saw, I didn't open up about really anything. But now that I've had lots of experience with hospitalizations and many different therapists, I open up about basically everything. It helps tremendously.

I hope that you find your sessions a little more enjoyable. It can be hard to go to therapy if you dread it every single time. And I'm glad that you're telling her everything. It really makes a difference.

I'm a bit new to therapy but I go because I couldn't find my strength and I was choking on the silence.

I originally went to therapy because I couldn't stand being in pain all the time and suicide seemed the only solution.

After years and years of therapy, I do it for even more reasons--
*so I never again get to a place where I feel suicidal and in extreme pain
*to catch up on skills that I didn't learn when I was young (self-management, social interactions, general resilience skills)
*to work on my health
*to work on my driving phobia
*to have someone in my life who listens, cares and helps me course-correct when I need it

For personal development, support and so I can do a fair job with my clients too.
I was required to be in therapy for this profession, but I started for personal development before I knew my therapist was able to provide the type of therapy hours required. Then I found out he could, so I stayed with him. Which was great because we work very well together.

I initially started to go in order to address some of my obsessive thoughts. I don't know why I continue to go though. Just for general psych stuff.

For me, to get closure and have one hour a week about 'me' amongst all the chaos.

I met my current T while I was at an OP day treatment program for eating disorders. I was with another T at the time, and I realized that she was helping me much, much more than he was. I asked if she could see me in her private practice, but she couldn't because of no contest rules. I ultimately had to leave to go to residential and was there for 3 months.....while I was there, she left the OP program (yay!) and when I got home, I switched to her.

I see her because of ED, mood, trauma and anxiety....and a bunch of stuff that has cropped up along the way.....attachment issues., career switching issues..,...fear of men and dating....wondering if I just kind of suck at living life and being a person....

All of that fun stuff :-)

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Because from time to time it's getting so bad that I'ma afraid that at some point I'll explode... In general everything is great, family, job, friends but in my head I have the second very tiring life - the past. I've always thought that it's nothing extraordinary to have a good and happy life and at the same time to replay all horrifying memories in my head, I guess I got used to it but it just started getting more and more tiring... Thus, the official reason why I started therapy is to become less exhausetd

With my previous T, who was absolutely amazing, I had 14 sessions with her before we had to terminate. I.e, the NHS is absolutely pants. I started seeing her after I overdosed, and was referred there by my doctor. We mainly did CBT based stuff, which I hated, but I got on well with her when we talked about things other than coping mechanisms. We talked about self-harm, my depression, a bit on anxiety, and suicide.

I'm now at another unit, and have just started psychotherapy. I didn't talk in the first session, so I'm really disappointed with myself. I'm not sure what we're going to work on yet, and I'm not sure how long it will last.

I started seeing one because of my parents divorce (I was forced to go) and then I got a different one that worked with me and my brother. Every time we went to a session we had to fill out these distress sheets that asked a bunch of questions and one of them was about self harm. When my T read it she talked to me privately and then I was put in individual sessions with her and then after only 2 sessions she sent me to the hospital. And now I have an outpatient T