Posted by fallsfall on April 20, 2004, at 21:28:30
In reply to Introduction, and Should I stay or should I go?, posted by LG04 on April 20, 2004, at 14:43:48
I guess that I feel that good therapy is important. But it is very true that I don't have a life - other than my depression. So I'm not sure how much weight I would give my opinions!
The other thing that struck me as I read your post is that while your current therapist is by far the best you have had, there isn't a reason to believe that you *couldn't* find another good therapist if you moved. I say this in particular because I think that now you know more about what you would want in a therapist (what orientation is the most helpful to you, what characteristics and attitudes work well with you). So I think that your chances of interviewing a number of therapists and choosing a good one are much higher now. Just because you had other therapists who weren't wonderful, doesn't mean that you can't find one who is.
I wouldn't want to leave my current therapist (I've been seeing him for 9 months), but I think that if, for some reason, I *had* to find a new therapist, that I could.
Definately a hard decision.
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