Posted by Tamar on December 20, 2005, at 8:01:50
In reply to Re: I want therapy so much (*****trigger*****) » Tamar, posted by Poet on December 19, 2005, at 22:45:07
Hi Poet,
> I don't get being too depressed for therapy. Every doctor I've seen for ADs has asked if I am in therapy and how often I see my T.
I know. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me either. I assume my GP has a very medicalized understanding of depression.
> When do you see your doctor next? When I switched from Paxil to Effexor XR last year, I saw ex pdoc every two weeks, then every month until he had (what he thought, not me) was the right dose. I'd like to hear your doc's reasons why you are too depressed to let you see a therapist. To me they go together.
I’m supposed to see her in three weeks, but I think I’ll go sooner than that. I think she believes I won’t be able to put the mental effort into thinking psychologically yet, or perhaps that the pain that sometimes comes with therapy will be too much for me to endure when I’m this depressed, or that I won’t have the energy to make changes. But I seem to be able to think psychologically at the moment; I’d rather be dealing with the pain than just experiencing it impotently, and I think that imagining change could give me a sense of hope I’m lacking at the moment.
> I think you are a fighter and your husband can transform himself into a superhuman if he needs one so badly.
Ha! I’ll ask him to do that. I suppose he’ll start going to work with his underwear over his trousers…
Tamar
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