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#21
seems like everybody here uses private therapies or terrific health insurance. Most MH consumers are lucky if they see their pdoc once every month and many check in every 6 wks for a medcvheck.
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#22
I see my therapist 3 times a week, but insurance only pays for one of those. I'm seeing a psychologist, though, not a psychiatrist for meds.
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#23
The norm in my country is weekly if you are unstable and then maintenance at 2 weekly to monthly intervals I have never heard of anyone see a T more than once a week.
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It shouldn't be this rare though. This type of therapy is far more helpful for me than previous therapy experiences have been, and I wish it was available to everyone for whom it would be helpful. |
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But then it's not like anyone I know (besides my partner) knows I go to therapy this often either. So for all I know I do know others, but none of us are talking about it. |
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#26
Really glad going more often is helping you so much. I'm just curious - are you attached to your T or does this come under the ambivalence about therapy? Going more than once a week isn't an option for me, but I'm wondering off the bat if going more often would ease the intense attachment or intensify it. I find the neediness/longing is worse for two days after therapy, then I seem to settle a bit, but it worsens again on the day before I see her.
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As to some of the other comments, yes in my part of the world, going 1 x week is the norm. I too feel that this type of therapy can be extremely helpful for some and wish there wasn't so much stigma around it and wished that insurance didn't have as much say in someone's treatment plans. I am lucky that my insurance has and does cover all my sessions. I too am fearful that they will at some point review my case and decide not to cover the additional sessions. |
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At once a week those feelings were usually either inaccessible or seemed too overwhelming and threatening to discuss. Often they would flare right after the session and be gone by the next day, let alone the following week. Or sometimes, it seemed like how could I possibly tell my therapist I hated him (or whatever complex amalgam of feelings was shorthanding as hatred) knowing that we'd run out of time when we were in the middle of the conversation and I'd be stuck stewing in the unfinished aftermath for 7 days or more? At twice a week those feelings became much more accessible and I felt much more able to bring them up and talk about them some of the time. They were a major focus on and off for a while, mostly because I was constantly having an especially difficult time getting started at the beginning of the session in a way that amplified some of that material. At three times a week those feelings are still present and still get talked about but there's more room for them to exist alongside other topics, which feels like it makes them more complex and interconnected to other material in useful ways. Focusing on those feelings no longer has to mean excluding the other things on my mind because there's generally time for both. And it all feels much more cohesive than it used to. I don't think going more frequently is the only way for all of that to happen, but given my extremely intense hesitation about trusting my therapist I can only imagine how long it would have taken for me at once a week. I would imagine some other people might have an easier time accessing the same material going less frequently than I do. |
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