Posted by BeArDedLADY on August 22, 2002, at 17:53:28
In reply to Re: What should I expect from therapy? » tina, posted by Ted on August 22, 2002, at 15:30:37
I have never wasted my hour. My first meeting with my therapist, he told me what to do to "get right," which was to resume something that I gave up years before. I didn't think it important and only mentioned it in a long list of other things. (No, it's not smoking!) Strangely enough, it worked, and I am pleased with the strides I've made.
Since then, he gives me special homework and plans and coping skills. Each session has a little lesson. I talk awhile; he responds to what I said with a story or a vignette, all of which has a lesson.
Sometimes I have appointments when I'm well, and I don't want to cancel, so I go in and tell him about my week, and he tells me how I could've handled things differently for different outcomes.
I think he's brilliant. He's a little Zen, but he never makes me guess. There are no riddles.
What should you expect from therapy? At the very list, you should expect to learn how to handle your fate better. Helping you cope is the very least a therapist should do, and it should happen the first day. I've been to two bad ones and a good one. I think maybe you got a bad one--if you don't think it's helping you.
(My first two came from recommendations. My third came from the phone book. I picked him because he was close!)
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