How do you usually leave a therapy appointment?

TishaBuv · Oct 22, 2019 at 10:08 AM

Feeling confused as to the point, frustrated, and poorer. Stopped going for that reason.

Xynesthesia2 · Oct 22, 2019 at 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by TishaBuv

Feeling confused as to the point, frustrated, and poorer. Stopped going for that reason.

I also stopped for the same reason - there was no real point for me to go, anything I could not get in my everyday life for free. The conversations with the Ts were actually way too superficial and limited relative to what I tend to do with friends, colleagues etc.

kaleidoscopeheart · Oct 22, 2019 at 04:32 PM

I definitely feel heard, less anxious, and just better than when I went in. It is also very rare that I don’t come away with some nugget to ponder for the next week, often leading to new insights and realizations on my part.

susannahsays · Oct 22, 2019 at 05:13 PM

I usually begin to feel enraged only as I get into the car. But sometimes that is "feeling better" than when I went in. Anyway, the most common trajectory seems to be "feeling better than when I went in" as I leap nimbly from the couch and exit from her office. Then as I cross through reception, "I usually feel nothing." As I slow to a shuffle in crossing the parking lot to my car, or occasionally loiter by the building door looking at my phone, I begin to "feel confused as to what the point of anything the therapist said was." Maybe it then makes sense that when I get in my car and slam the door shut, I am "filled with frustrated rage."

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TishaBuv Legendary Member Since Dec 2014 Location: USA Posts: 10,181 (SuperPoster!) 9 1,869 hugs given	Oct 22, 2019 at 10:08 AM #21 Feeling confused as to the point, frustrated, and poorer. Stopped going for that reason. __________________ "And don't say it hasn't been a little slice of heaven, 'cause it hasn't!" . About Me--T
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kaleidoscopeheart Member Member Since Apr 2017 Location: Parts Unknown Posts: 333 7 77 hugs given	Oct 22, 2019 at 04:32 PM #23 I definitely feel heard, less anxious, and just better than when I went in. It is also very rare that I don’t come away with some nugget to ponder for the next week, often leading to new insights and realizations on my part.
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