Posted by Penny on April 12, 2004, at 9:10:38
In reply to Re: How Frequent is Therapy? » noa, posted by Dinah on April 11, 2004, at 22:56:19
Dinah,
For me, personally, I find that therapy when I'm feeling bad ends up being more 'supportive' and is not conducive to getting to the root of some of the issues I'd hoped to explore in therapy (i.e. my problems with men, body image issues, etc.).
Those issues have the power to make me depressed, so when I'm already depressed, it's not helpful to try to deal with them. Not to mention that my thinking is even more skewed when I'm severely depressed.
Right now, since I've been doing *better* (not great, but not terrible), I've been able to face those issues a bit more that I can't even think about when I'm severely depressed. I think I'm able to look at things a bit more rationally, but I'm not feeling so good that I can't tap into those painful emotions that are beneficial to therapy.
'Course, when I tried this in therapy with my former T, I would always slip and end up depressed again. I haven't yet decided what the difference is now - meds? different T? greater resiliency on my part? who knows...
P
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