Posted by baseball55 on April 1, 2016, at 20:04:25
In reply to Re: factors that may keep us 'sick' » Tabitha, posted by Phillipa on April 1, 2016, at 17:02:23
Well, as some of you know from previous posts, I had nothing but wonderful experiences with therapy, therapists and psychiatrists. Meds helped, meds helped me (sometimes) with the deep biological depressive symptoms I would suffer.
But meds couldn't end my terrible social isolation, my inability to feel connected or comfortable with people, my distress over a terrible childhood/adolescence that was started to eat at me constantly, my difficult relationship with my husband, whose response to my depression and a suicide attempt was - why don't you just kill yourself? --, my inability to extricate myself from that relationship because I feared being alone above anything else, my complete inability to reflect on myself or identify feelings. None of these issues were caused by a biological mental illness. They had deep psycho-social roots and for this, I needed therapy.
It's disheartening to hear so many people talk about bad therapists. I wish I could give you my therapist's number (he is also my psychiatrist). He helped me so much. OTOH, I looked up his ratings on one of those sites for MDs and someone commented that he was manipulative, judgmental and insensitive. So "fit" matters so much. If we're lucky, we click with someone. But if we're not lucky.
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