Here are some skills for identifying and preventing panic attacks/alternate activities to cutting/methods of grounding/methods of relaxation/steps you can take to get out of your terrible housing situation/ways you can deal with the paperwork to get yourself on disability/etc!
If anyone had ever done any of that, I would have stuck around.
Until I found the CT therapist, I managed to find a whole series of therapists who started with "Let's talk about your feelings about your childhood/your parents and how they are influencing your feelings now," continued with "let's talk about your feelings (etc) some more," and never gave me anything else.
I actually did end up talking quite a lot about the past and my feelings. But not until I was stabilized. She was the only person who didn't skip the stabilization. And since the popular image of therapy is "talk about your feelings," I didn't realize that there was a problem with the therapists. I assumed that I was a hopeless case.
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If anyone had ever done any of that, I would have stuck around.
Until I found the CT therapist, I managed to find a whole series of therapists who started with "Let's talk about your feelings about your childhood/your parents and how they are influencing your feelings now," continued with "let's talk about your feelings (etc) some more," and never gave me anything else.
I actually did end up talking quite a lot about the past and my feelings. But not until I was stabilized. She was the only person who didn't skip the stabilization. And since the popular image of therapy is "talk about your feelings," I didn't realize that there was a problem with the therapists. I assumed that I was a hopeless case.