Posted by muffled on February 5, 2007, at 14:20:30
In reply to Why long-term therapy?, posted by Dis Traught on February 5, 2007, at 13:23:03
> Something that has baffled me on this site is the amount of time people appear to be spending in therapy. In my country, more than 2 yrs is almost unheard of, and if you stay in therapy for 2 yrs you are considered to have very, very serious difficulties. Here it's more like: get to the point, identify the problem, deal with it and then get on with it. Maybe that's too rational? What are the benefits of long-term therapy?
> Anyway, one thing is for certain: People here don't form deep, long-standing one-sided relationships with their therapists.
>
> Penny**What a good thread to start!
I have been to T for mebbe a little over 2 yrs? off and on. It took me over a yera to even consider the possibility of even thinking it was possible to trust this T person with my thots.....
I wonder if longer term therapy is useful for those who don't trust easily and have to be able to learen that trust is even possible.
I found it very hard to get past a certain wall when talking to others....had a hard time interacting meaningfully with others.
I am learning this thru T.
I am also so mixed up, and can't talk well, so its taking me a long time to figger stuff out.
Also for first many many months of T I completely dissociated and couldn't even remember sessions....
I don't consider myself as being terribly ill, but I want to do better. I am functioning(not all that well), and I am surviving, but I struggle, and I used to be so risk taking. And now I am not.
So I dunno.
Hopefully I would not continue T too much longer....
I want to develop IRL friendships where we can share our lives. T is so one sided.
I will get there.
But....
it seems to take time????
Muffled
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