Posted by alexandra_k on December 21, 2005, at 23:29:33
In reply to Re: survival instinct *poss Trig* » Gabbix2, posted by zeugma on December 21, 2005, at 16:15:47
> The therapist kept asking, "So what thoughts go through your head when you stand there on the supermarket line? What are you thinking that is causing the fear?"
Grr.
I was raving about just that over on the psychology board. Next time anyone tries to tell you that tell them to look up: AFFECTIVE PRIMACY If they give you a dumb stare then ask them what thoughts were going through pavlov dog's mind when he heard the tone (the point is nothing at all because dogs don't have the capacity for verbal representation and much less 'cognitive error')> and the more I analyzed it, per CBT instructions, the more intense it became,
lol! You wanna be a case study???
<joke>> to which she could only reply, "That's not supposed to happen"; given that I was meticulously following the CBT program in detail and it was causing a drastic worsening of my condition.
It is known to do that for some other disorders too... Yeah. I hear you. I do.
> By the way, therapy has ALWAYS worsened my condition. No matter what method the therapist practiced.
Can I ask what methods you have tried?
> IMO, there is a method which might have benefited me: simply listening to what I had to say. But that is a method which no school of therapy I have come across promotes. Or at least, no representative of any therapy has made it part of their practice, so far as it has been practiced on me.
I'm sorry Zeugma :-(
I think... You have seen crap therapists.> And there are therapists I have been subjected to who have done more than simply not listen.)
Yeah. I hear you there :-(
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