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Re: Post therapy observations

Posted by baseball55 on April 30, 2014, at 19:09:17

In reply to Post therapy observations, posted by Tabitha on April 30, 2014, at 15:48:39

I sometimes worry about keeping myself unhappy in order to have something to talk about in therapy. But fortunately, my therapist is very pragmatic. If I'm unhappy, she is - how to live with it, how to counter it, how to accept it. So when I'm feeling okay, I cut back the frequency of sessions to every other week or so.

I also still see a p-doc every month with whom I did therapy for six years. Usually I see him for half-an-hour, but recently, with a lot going on in my life and separating from my husband, I've been seeing him for an hour a month. But he also is very much - what are we doing here? What are the goals? What is the endgame? He sees me monthly kind of grudgingly because he knows I am too attached to him to quit entirely.

I wonder about therapists who will see someone a few times a weeks for years on end without having clear goals or a clear endgame in mind. It seems to encourage people to cling to their problems in order to have something to talk about in therapy.

But maybe I'm being judgmental. We're all different and have different needs.


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