Posted by Racer on August 25, 2006, at 9:57:58
In reply to Re: On a related note..., posted by Estella on August 25, 2006, at 2:14:47
I've got my own problems with CBT style therapy. For one thing, I think a lot of the CBT crowd kinda say that it works For Everyone. Ergo, if it doesn't work for you, you're not doing it right. (I actually had a therapist tell me I "wasn't doing it right" when I tried to tell her I had a problem with it. Uh, not helpful, except in that it convinced me to fire her.) I don't think ANYTHING works for EVERYONE, ya know?
The bigger problem with it for me, though, is that it does for me what anorexia does for me, and triggers anorexic behavior. I've seen two cognitive types so far, and NO MORE! The first was the therapist who triggered all the problems a couple of years back. (Poor GG gets calls from me about the residual obsession that broad implanted.) I put so much energy into trying to suck back, and suppress all emotions, that the only way I could do it was to be very hungry. The second time, I fired the therapist as soon as I realized she was so married to that model that she couldn't even see me. I tried to tell her to listen to me before she started telling me how to stop feeling, I tried to tell her I had a very good way to stop feeling already, but she just said that CBT was The Answer, and if it wasn't helping me, it was because I was doing it wrong.
That's another thing that bothers me about it -- for me, the things CBT says to do don't resolve anything at all. They just bury it all deeper, and they trigger a lot of feelings of hopelessness -- "they say it's all in my control, I'm still unhappy, therefore I must be making myself unhappy, therefore I just have to keep working harder and harder to hang on, with no chance of being able to relax and take a deep breath." Nope, just doesn't work for me. That whole control thing is too tied up with starvation for me.
Sorry, I went off on my own rant there...
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