Posted by B2chica on June 2, 2006, at 10:12:07
In reply to Babble Experience, posted by cricket on June 2, 2006, at 9:26:17
hi cricket.
thank you for your post. i think it was very well said.
i think that this is important to say. because although i think all of here have many things in common. sometimes this is the only place a lot of us actually feel we belong and want to keep that feeling. so although i hope this isn't happening, who knows.personally i have had a really great experience here. and quite frankly this is sometimes better for me than my real therapy was.(the bad ones)
but i think if nothing else it is very important for us to self monitor and realize if we are needing to take a break from babble, or even from therapy for that matter. sometimes we need this to step back and figure out where we are now and where we want to go from here.i was in pretty intense therapy for about a year with a great T, when he moved i saw someone basically to fill that place and to continue therapy. but it wasn't working. i stopped therapy, 1) because for three months all therapy was doing was costing me money and making me more upset and frustrated and hurt. 2)because i wanted to keep a connection to my old T and 3)because i wasn't sure what to do next. although my break hasn't been long i already feel stronger and better for my decision. i am now ready to find another T to start some preliminary work. but i needed that time (a few months) to realize that i wasn't going in the direction i wanted, and i wasn't being helped as i needed.
now i'm more sure and feel good about the decisions i made.i think everyone needs to step back once in a while to 'take inventory'.
i know that you were talking specifically about babble, but i think this is true for other realms in our lives as well.and i am very happy to hear that you are doing so well.
b2c
poster:B2chica
thread:651853
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