Posted by SLS on April 20, 2016, at 6:08:06
In reply to Re: Science., posted by baseball55 on April 19, 2016, at 18:54:42
> But my therapist is a psychiatrist and he feels, though he believes strongly in therapy, that, when I am depressed, we can't really do therapy. All we do is work on stabilizing me.
Yes. Exactly. This has been my experience as well. When I am at rock-bottom, I tell my therapist that he or she has only one job - keep me alive. When I feel better, I love to work on my issues - because I can. I have plenty of them. Reaching for a self-actualizing lifestyle is my long-term goal.
Talking about drugs all of the time does not blind me to the rest of the world of psychiatric therapeutics. It would be presumptuous, and an example of all-or-nothing thinking, for someone to describe me as being blind, especially when they haven't had the advantage of reading all of my posts through the years.
Overgeneralizing is often counterproductive and can set up for adversarial relationships.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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