Wasted Sessions

No cause we plan what we want to talk about and then when nothing gets accomplished I feel like it's wasted.

Ya, one time I came to session and she talked and talked (way more than did) about things we had already covered. Her daughter was coming in for a visit for the day and I think she was more focused on that.

I recently changed T's because I thought I was wasting our time. Now I really think I'm wasting My time. All this new one wants me to do is focus on my feelings of right now.
What kind of therapy is this?

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Actually, I wish my T would let me focus more on me right now, rather than the past. But she says it's important to "go back there" first.

My last T always tried to get me into my past. By the time I found her, I was all done dealing with that. I was more interested in learning how to deal with today. I made that clear.

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I don't know that type of therapy . :-/

I don't think I could have a wasted session... Even if he didn't show up, I would benefit from looking forward to the session all week. Maybe that is a lame answer, but therapy is one bright spot in my life where another person talks to me and pretends to care, and I can pretend that I'm somebody and that life is worth living, or hope or whatever. So if you find you are in this situation, then certainly there cant be a wasted session.

I wasted mine last week. I was all withdrawn and it was frustrated because I look forward all week and then I blanked out.

I wonder how mine knows when I don't really feel like talking, it is almost as if get goes for the jugular and drags out another box of bad memories

I was talking to my T about this and he said sometimes you need the 'wasted' time to get to the next thing. Or that thing wouldn't have come along.

There's a bit in Mad Men where Don Draper says: "My staff need to be unproductive until they're productive." This feels kind of the same.

I feel that some of mine are wasted as most of the time my therapist is just monitoring my mood level. And when I'm stable it's pretty much of a waste so we spread out my sessions so that we cut down on those wasted sessions as I can always call if I need an appointment to address issues. I also alternate between seeing my t and seeing my pdoc, which helps cut down on wasted appointments, too.

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