Posted by Christ_empowered on November 28, 2011, at 22:34:46
In reply to Re: Can't shake these voices... » Phillipa, posted by floatingbridge on November 28, 2011, at 22:21:28
thanks, fb.
I'm at a community mental health place, so I haven't had a therapist/counselor/"case manager" in a while. I had one, but then they changed her job or her case load got too large...anyway, something happened and I had to be transferred to someone else. I have my first appointment with her in about a week.
I think moving back home was a great move overall, but its triggering voices. My past is all around me. Lots of people around here either never leave or end up back here. Maybe its like that in every hometown? I don't know. Anyway, before I just heard voices. Now, I have to run into people from my less-than-respectable past in public, and its kind of...troubling.
Oh well. I'm different now. We don't have to go to High School together 5 days a week anymore. I don't go to bars anymore, so its not like I have to hang out with drunk d-bags from the past anymore.
Therapy will help, I think. I just don't know what form of therapy would help the most. CBT? Just talking? Who knows, right? And this place is all about keeping therapy short-term. This is helpful on one hand--keeps you focused on results and progress--but it seems that it might interfere with rapport and developing a warm relationship with the counselor.
I have developed some "coping mechanisms" of my own for dealing with some of these voices. I emailed a HIPPA complaint about one of my ex-shrinks to the Office of Civil Rights, complete with his contact info. The only part I may have been less-than-truthful about was the date on which the violation occurred (they have 180 day rule). Other than that...totally honest. That was very cathartic, trust me.
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