Posted by seldomseen on September 18, 2007, at 8:43:49
In reply to Re: How long into therapy can you see progress? » seldomseen, posted by Girlnterrupted78 on September 17, 2007, at 23:08:25
Well, I don't know of any good books on the different types of therapy, but I'm sure you could peruse online and find all the information that you need.
Or maybe someone here knows of some good therapy books and they could post.
Yeah I do suffer from major depression, but I haven't had a major relapse in over 7 years. Just minor bumps along the way that just are a natural part of life.
The drugs helped with the depression, but therapy played I think the most important role in my remission.
It's hard to describe exactly how it did this, but therapy changed the way I think and changed the way I process what I perceive in the world.
My first months in therapy were basically just me talking about how my life sucked, how my childhood sucked, how nothing ever worked out for me, how depressed I was etc... It was gut wrenching for us both I think. But it helped me to realize the magnitude of the problem which hit me like a ton off bricks.
During this time, my T was largely silent. He would listen, but I knew he was waiting for me to get it all out, so he could learn my thought patterns, my triggers and then where he could best help.
My T is big into "insight based" therapy. So once he developed what I call his "treatment plan", we started to work. He would offer different explanations for the way I experienced something.
He helped me to see that I was looking at the world through a veil of abuse and depression, and not viewing it as a "well" person would. That was year 2-4.
Did I like it? NO! In fact, I was mad as heck at him for pointing out even further how I was to blame for everything that was bad. Then there were some incredibly painful transference issues.
Why did I stick it out? Part of it was the relationship that I had developed with my T and the other part of it was I knew it was working. Once he helped me to see that I could control how I viewed the world things got dramatically better.
Seldom.
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