Posted by Raven on August 12, 2002, at 22:23:30
In reply to Re: Lots, Medium or Dinky??? » Raven, posted by judy1 on August 12, 2002, at 20:35:07
Dinah and Judy, thanks for your input.
Originally I went into what they call crisis therapy after my husband left me for an older, really not good looking other woman. This really took me totally by surprise and I didn’t do too well after it happened. My therapist was very sweet and empathetic and was a great sounding board. At that point, all I wanted was some relief from the pain. She also saved my life a few times.
It definitely wasn’t cognitive...I called it *hump* therapy, as in, help me over the...
Right now, the therapy is more to help me find some purpose and find some answers to questions to things that I can’t rationalize away, and maybe to help me better tolerate the negative things in my life. It’s not nearly as critical to me as it was in the beginning. Unfortunately, I’ve fallen into the familiar bag of really enjoying sitting in that dyad.
As far as being constrained by the policy of the HMO, my therapist has to follow their guidelines whether she wants to or not. She was not really happy to have to let me go soon, but she has no choice and I have no options to be able to see her even on a fee basis. She was really pretty demonstrative...less like a blank slate and more like an etch-a-sketch.
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