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Therapeutic Disillusionment

neitherday
Date and Time  - Mar. 15th, 2006, 11:04 pm

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In the spirit of ending things, I am planning on making my upcoming therapy session my last. I don't feel therapy is helping me. Furthermore, I'm losing my trust in her. Last week she strongly suggested I start taking medication again. This week she's given me a brand new label: "major depression with psychotic features". This is another diagnosis in the long list of diagnoses I've been given. If these people can't even figure out what is wrong with me, they have no business medicating me. I'm done.

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From:[info]panda_cookie
Date:March 16th, 2006 - 04:29 am
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Well, you really need to do what YOU feel is best for you. Therapy isn't for everyone.
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From:[info]fading_away84
Date:March 16th, 2006 - 03:28 pm
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Ah, therapy, I have been down that road. It can really suck. I hope this choice to end your treatment is the right one for you. I'm Katie. I'm new to livejournal and came across your journal. You seem like a really cool person. I added you. I hope that's ok?
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From:[info]neitherday
Date:March 16th, 2006 - 05:04 pm
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Welcome. I have added you back.
From:[info]daffidoll
Date:March 16th, 2006 - 05:45 pm
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neitherday was my second lj friend ever.

:)
From:[info]daffidoll
Date:March 16th, 2006 - 05:44 pm
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for so long i've really enjoyed therapy, mainly because i love talking about myself, but thus far it hasn't actually changed my life. sometimes i feel like i understand my motivation for something better, but it hasn't actually stopped me from doing it or made me less suicidal or given me incentive to do anything with my life.

i can really understand quitting.

also, they change my label all the time too. my recent hospital trip decided i am something different then the pdoc who has been seeing me for 10 minutes every 3 months for a few years. i really think all the labels are the same.
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From:[info]illusoryaxiom
Date:March 16th, 2006 - 06:00 pm
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I don't have much faith in therapists... granted, I have never been to one but I don't have much faith in them.

The freedom is within ourselves, we need to know who we are and once we do know, it is then when we know what is wrong with ourselves and how to fix it.
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From:[info]defygravity87
Date:March 17th, 2006 - 05:23 am
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I was forced into therapy, so I go, but it doesn't really help. I just bitch about what's pissing me off, then come back the next week. I mean, how does that help?