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Posted by Lamdage22 on July 18, 2014, at 13:29:55
"Reality therapy, behavioral modification therapy, and pharmaceutical drugs are just another way of saying to victims of sexual abuse, shut up; we dont want to hear about that ugly topic. Get over it
I still don't know about my past. I was really sure once that something happened.
But its just a gut feeling and nothing you can go and yell into the world. Unfortunately i did that which has had negative effects on my stance in my surroundings.
To me i get clues everywhere. And if my gut feeling is right, pretty much all the "therapy" i have had is just another way of saying "shut up, if you talk about it you will be medicated.
Posted by Lamdage22 on July 18, 2014, at 13:36:11
In reply to I could second that, posted by Lamdage22 on July 18, 2014, at 13:29:55
Another truth
Reality Therapy teaches that no matter what someone has been through in their childhood, they can suddenly choose different behavior and focus solely on the here and now. This leaves the grieving child inside the adult survivor feeling unheard. Unless a person knows why they are suffering and are given the tools to transmute past trauma, no amount of positive thinking will help them.
Posted by Lamdage22 on July 18, 2014, at 13:37:27
In reply to Another truth, posted by Lamdage22 on July 18, 2014, at 13:36:11
Behavioral modification and reality therapy can ultimately cause a person to become a robot of concepts taught in text books, and those concepts will never truly heal a person.
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Posted by baseball55 on July 18, 2014, at 20:10:24
In reply to Another truth, posted by Lamdage22 on July 18, 2014, at 13:36:11
> Another truth
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> Reality Therapy teaches that no matter what someone has been through in their childhood, they can suddenly choose different behavior and focus solely on the here and now. This leaves the grieving child inside the adult survivor feeling unheard. Unless a person knows why they are suffering and are given the tools to transmute past trauma, no amount of positive thinking will help them.I'm not sure what reality therapy is or how it works. But any therapy must eventually get people to focus on the here and now and learn to cope in the moment. My p-doc spent the first few months going over past trauma and encouraging me to grieve, but after that, he encouraged me to learn coping skills so I could function. He didn't believe in going over and over the past and I felt he was right in this.
Posted by Beckett on July 19, 2014, at 3:21:07
In reply to Re: Another truth, posted by baseball55 on July 18, 2014, at 20:10:24
Living in the moment (as often as possible) can move the grief process forward. At least keep grief moving and not stagnant. I recently left a therapist of three years, a compassionate woman who does not have tools to help with life skills and tolerate grief. It's painful, but I like to think the past may be immutable, but my perception and response are not.
All that said, any therapy that does not acknowledge my past hasn't worked.
Posted by Beckett on July 19, 2014, at 15:12:39
In reply to Re: Another truth, posted by Beckett on July 19, 2014, at 3:21:07
And I should add that a therapy that dwells too much on the past, as my ex-therapist did, I find painful and maddening :(
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