Posted by shadows721 on April 23, 2004, at 17:00:19
In reply to Re: Optional sidebar: my T experiences » spoc, posted by Dinah on April 23, 2004, at 16:37:46
I am jumping in here, because I have found a very rare therapist. I have been in very bad way for about a year now. At first I could pay for therapy, but then I became unemployed. My therapists sees regularly at no charge. She has been an angel from God. No, I am not dependent on here or anyone else. I told her that I wouldn't see her anymore due to financial reasons. She wouldn't hear of it.
I think that people sometimes resent having to pay to talk to someone. I know I did years ago, but that was with a very cold therapist. Her boundaries were sky high. I told her that I thought she was like an ATM machine.
Being a t is a full-time and sometimes an on call 24 hour job. This is how they support themselves. It just like nursing. Sometimes, a nurses job is just talking to people and she gets paid too. We are paying for training and education as well.
Personally, I think therapy is what you put into it. Therefore, it needs to revolve around your core issues. If you don't do that, you are wasting your time and money.
Off to the side here, I think therapy is one small piece of the pie. It is a tool to use to help yourself become all you can be. It is our responsibility to meet our body, mind, and spirit needs. That is our responsibilities as an adult.
I am glad there is such a thing as therapist. They help us get out our cognitive distortions from our up bringing and let us decide what we will do with it. It's hard to see ourselves as we really are. It is necessary at times to have an objective point of view of what the heck we are doing with our lives. An objective eye can take the blinders off and stop our lying to ourselves.
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