[eye2797]

I've been stable now for a month and a half or so, I go to counseling once a week. It doesn't feel like I need to be there and a waste of my money and time.
We talk about the week and what is going on. Pretty much everything is positive. So do I bring up other subjects to work on or take a break from going?
When I'm stable I just don't feel like there's a need for me to be going but when I'm depressed or manic then that's a different story.
What do you all think?

[All Is Revealed]

Originally Posted by eye2797

I've been stable now for a month and a half or so, I go to counseling once a week. It doesn't feel like I need to be there and a waste of my money and time.
We talk about the week and what is going on. Pretty much everything is positive. So do I bring up other subjects to work on or take a break from going?
When I'm stable I just don't feel like there's a need for me to be going but when I'm depressed or manic then that's a different story.
What do you all think?

It's best to keep going to the therapist even when you're stable. If you wait to go only when you're unstable, then your therapist needs to catch up on what caused the instability.

Plus, your T also needs to catch you in a moment when you're able to make an unstable move -- which can only happen if you're there to talk about it.

If nothing went wrong during the week, find a subject that you need to work on. There is always something you can improve on.

[ruh roh]

It sounds to me like you could cut back to every other week, and then see how you're doing. If that's okay, then cut down to once a month or take a break. You have lots of options.

[kecanoe]

The questions I think I would ponder if I were you:

How long have you been in therapy?
Have you felt better in the past and then suddenly got worse?
Can you stop now and then go back without having to wait forever to get back in if you start feeling worse?
Can you take a break or cut back?
What would you want to accomplish if you brought up "other subjects"?
How much is that "other" stuff bothering you?

Nothing like answering a question with a question, huh?

[annielovesbacon]

^those are definitely great questions to ask yourself.
Also, have you talked about this with your T? Maybe you could cut back to once every two weeks, or even once a month. I think that it is a good idea to continue going to therapy when your stable, because it gives you an opportunity to work on smaller things, or things that you haven't had time to talk about before because you were focused on the immediate problems at hand.
However, I understand the money aspect, and if you don't need to be going once a week, then you shouldn't spend the money for that.

[Teddy Bear]

I agree you could cut back on your counseling or see what else you could work on