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Quick recap of my current situation: hit a low point where I seemed to be stuck, and it was becoming a big problem for me. Reached out to a therapist for help.
I was diagnosed as PTSD (complex, prolonged, take your pick.) Started EMDR therapy, quite willingly. Not real pleased about some of the "side effects" I was experiencing, but was working through it, feeling good about it. Then, some stuff came out of my therapy sessions, that became "red flags" (in her words) to my therapist. She has now diagnosed me as also having BPD. She is now telling me the PTSD stuff is to be put on hold, and my therapy is to switch over to DBT for the BPD first. Uhm, ok. I can accept that BPD might be a correct diagnosis for me, and that the DBT therapy could be beneficial to me - but there's a problem. A pretty big one. Part of her planned therapy is a 2 hour, once a week, group session, spanning a year. I've done group sessions before, other things, wasn't a problem. However, I am finding myself feeling highly resistant to agreeing to it now. I honestly don't think it's because I am resisting the diagnosis, or the work involved, or an unwillingness to receive treatment / make changes. I really can't put my finger on why I am resisting the group part of this, and so strongly. Yet my feelings about resisting are growing stronger, anyway, and I don't know what to do about it. Obviously, I need to discuss this with my therapist, and will do so this week. But meanwhile, and also, does anyone here have any insight on why I'm feeling this way, or what I can do to overcome it? __________________ Diagnosed: Prolonged PTSD (civilian) BPD Dissociation |
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Honestly I don't really have any idea what might be going on here. However my thinking with regard to it is that perhaps your resistance might be the result of the sudden change? I don't know a lot about the various therapies or the therapy process. But the apparently abrupt change in the direction of your therapy seems troubling to me on the surface. I think if I were to have a similar experience, I'd be feeling some resistance too. I imagine the correct thing to do, though, is to talk how you are feeling through with your therapist which is what you mentioned you plan to do. Here's a link to an article, from PC's archives, that offers tips for talking with your therapist:
Tips for Talking to Your Therapist __________________ "I may be older but I am not wise / I'm still a child's grown-up disguise / and I never can tell you what you want to know / You will find out as you go." (from: "A Nightengale's Lullaby" - Julie Last) |
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Thanks for the link. A good refresher / reminder, ahead of my appointment.
__________________ Diagnosed: Prolonged PTSD (civilian) BPD Dissociation |
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Update - I feel I cleared the air a little bit with my therapist. She now is very aware of my objections to participating in a "group therapy session" - and has alleviated my concerns about such, in that she was able to better describe that "group session for DBT therapy" is NOT "group THERAPY session".
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It’s very, very different from group therapy.
I did two years of debt group. It’s mostly a class __________________ Bipolar 1 w/psychotic features or schizoaffective bipolar type PTSD generalized anxiety OCD celexa, prazosin, Lybalvi and prn zyprexa and klonopin |
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