How come some people never recover from seeing a Therapist?!
Question: Is it hard for people to recover from seeing a Therapist?
How could they move on and think about their future and forget what happened to them? I have been seeing my Therapist since I was a child.
Answers: Is it hard for people to recover from seeing a Therapist?
How could they move on and think about their future and forget what happened to them? I have been seeing my Therapist since I was a child.
Your therapist should be giving you tools and skills to deal with your day to day problems on your own and not make you dependent on them for life as their "meal ticket." Whenever I would see clients, it was on a time limited basis and we had goals to accomplish to get them back on their own two feet so they would never need a lifelong therapist.
It would be wise for you to take a proactive approach with your current therapist about exit/closing treatment strategies and start living life without a therapist, provided you are just dealing with past issues and not a severe and persistent mental disorder.
Your therapist is not there to make you forget about your past, but to assis you in constructively dealing with it and proceeding with life. Get on an action plan!
Has your therapist helped? If not maybe you should try another. I have no idea how long it takes, but you will never forget whatever you are in therapy for, but you can move on.
you don't recover from a good therapist, you recover from your issues. Unless of course you are a first rate partaker in denial, in which case no therapist can help you.
therapy is to help
it depends on the life situation
a lot of times people use therapy to hold hands so to speak
idea is to use therapy to help resolve conflict , cope with difficulties, resolve past issues and go on in life
If this therapist isn't working for you, why don't you change therapists? It is interesting that you say "never recover form seeing a therapist". There is something wrong here. How has the therapist affected you negatively?
Therapy is not just fix problems, it is supposed to be there to help you get through them, this is probably why some people see therapist more or less than others. Some people cope better than others or are able to handle certain situations differently. Therapy can point areas in your life that may need improvement and ask you to look at yourself to see how you can make that improvement. Some things can be changed some can not. But it is important to realize that there is hope with therapy whether it take days months or years. I have seen children who have come in ( i work at a child mental health facility) just a handful of times and others who have been coming in since I first started working there (almost 8 years now).
Hope this helps you
Interesting choice of words. Anyway, your therapist should be giving you the tools to cope without therapy. There are a few illnesses that one should always be in therapy w/some level of frequency. Schizophrenia, bipolar, major recurring depress, and some personality disorders come to mind, but those are exceptions to the rule. Not knowing why you have been in therapy, it's easy for ppl here to jump to conclusions, so I'll try to refrain.
The place to ask the question is with your therapist. Ask about transitioning out of therapy and how that would work. If your therapist says you are not ready, explore why s/he feels that way. Think about it and figure out how you really feel. If you believe that you are not ready because your therapist has not helped you stand on your own, seek out another therapist who you believe will help you get there. It sounds like you've been with the same person a long time, and sometimes that in itself indicates a time for a change. You are not a child anymore. On the other hand, your therapist may have been waiting for you to bring up the subject, you know, not wanting to push you where you may not have been ready to go. Sooooo, talk to your therapist about it. Then make up your mind and take it from there.