Posted by AuntieMel on July 19, 2004, at 15:28:02
In reply to Re: May I disagree with my friends? » TofuEmmy, posted by Dinah on July 19, 2004, at 12:48:22
Well, my buttons weren't pressed on any of these discussions, so I've been looking at it from a distance. I'll try to give my perspective as an outsider.
S(H)e seems to be a bit of a wounded animal, too. The kind that will bite your arm off if you try to get too close. Some need comforting, some are very self proctive. Different ways of reacting to the same feelings.
I started looking at this pretty late, but my first "view" of a therapy thread began with fires' questions about cognitive therapy. (June 5) These questions seemed to be perfecly reasonable, although there was a request that the info about CBT not come from a psychonalist. It seemed to me that he had a really bad experience in therapy.
The biggest mistake I saw in this discourse was that it didn't stay on topic. One person had had a bad experience with analysis and didn't want to discuss it, others felt from that that their own therapy was being attacked. The truth was probably somewhere in the middle. But, when you are emotionally invested in what you are trying to do for yourself it is hard to see another side.
After that it seems that everyone was expecting the worse - and finding it.
I never got the impression fires was anti-therapy, just that he had bad experiences with it. Maybe hi is looking for someone with good experiences? Something to base hope on?
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