Posted by bulldog2 on January 19, 2010, at 9:17:14
In reply to Re: Blueaberry Please come back, posted by KaylaBear on January 18, 2010, at 21:11:34
> Yes, I agree w/your doc-self-acceptance is a big part of it!! But you can't go there until you understand and process the emotions, imo.
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> I've done talk therapy for years, but it wasn't until I started feeling when I realize wtf I am the way I am. Recognizing and relating to transference is what differentiates my experience now from CBT (I agree too-fluff) and or just talking.
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> It helps to understand what its all about when you go there. Here's the overview:
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> http://www.objectrelations.org/index.html
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> You have to let yourself be vulnerable, and that takes lots of trust. Experienced therapists make a difference, I believe, in addition to a good match. And the older pdocs who do therapy often want to only take on the simpler cases, those who have mild problems, from what I've read and heard. They are difficult to find, especially with insurance situations. I am very sorry to hear about yours. I've been there too. I am lucky to have found a great T.
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> Anyway, if you talk and talk to a T, without feeling, nothing changes. Don't know if that's your situation, but it sure explains mine.
>Yes when I was looking for a p-doc covered by insurance the covered docs who heard my case turned me away.
Seems like most use a modified form of cbt these days. I go in and talk about how i felt since my last visit. We explore negative emotions and the pattern of faulty thinking that may be causing that emotion. We than talk about replacing that faulty thinking process with a new thought process that will not evoke anxiety and depression. So basically you are taught to look at certain situations that evoke negative thoughts and emotions in a new light.While this may be somewhat helpful it just doesn't seem to get the poison out of the system. In some ways its more of an academic exercise. These are the thoughts processes causing you pain. Now begin practicing these new thought processes. But something in my mind just keeps taking me back to the old negative crap. The old tapes just demand to be heard. Than you feel guilty and lazy that the therapy is really not working.
have to read pete walkers link and all the different sections.
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