Therapy
I’ve been in therapy for over a year now and I have just now got used to it. It was hard for me to express myself at first, but I’m finally starting to tell someone else how I really feel about myself and life. I’ve definitely made some progress. DBT is hard for me, but I can’t give up. Especially since I gave up my case manager to go to DBT. When I first started DBT I was extremely shy and said I don’t know too much. Even though I still say I don’t know as much as I used to I still could put forth more of an effort.
Therapy isn’t working out for me at all. I can’t attend group anymore and the skills don’t seem to be working for me anymore. I’ve been thinking of quitting for a month now, but if I quit this then what will I have? Absolutely nothing and that will just make me more depressed than I normally am. I don’t know what I’m going to do.
I finally graduated from DBT, but my therapist thought that I should stay in individual therapy. I don’t know why she doesn’t think I’m ready. That’s why I might just stop seeing her. That should do the job even though I don’t have anything else to look forward to. I guess that’s life though. Will I ever be ready to finally end therapy? I don’t know, but it’s obviously too early to drop out.
Jeff ~ Interesting, you said it took a year for you to open up in therapy. Your therapist must be very patient and she is not about to let you go at the point that you just started to open up. She’s right, you need individual therapy for a while longer.