Posted by Deneb on December 22, 2005, at 1:48:11
In reply to Re: Just wanted to say that I'm OK, posted by Emily Elizabeth on December 21, 2005, at 1:01:23
> Hmm. This just occured to me. Maybe it will make sense to you too. Perhaps part of it is that when you feel distressed/upset/afraid/alone/powerless you want others to understand what that is like. So you do things through your posts that make others feel that way too.
I think Alexandra said the same thing a while ago but I forgot about it. That actually makes a lot of sense. Wow, you guys understand me more than I understand myself.
I'm not very good at interpreting why I do the things that I do. That's something I have to really think about.
> So maybe the challenge for you now is to work to describe your pain rather than act on it. It is possible for us to empathize with you without actually feeling the emotions that you feel. Does that make sense? Working on expressing your pain is no easy task. Honestly, I think you need a professional to guide you through it. I know that you ran into some difficulty trying to get into therapy at the university counseling center. Consider talking to your pdoc about how to arrange it. Perhaps now that you are in treatment w/ a pdoc they would be willing to see you? Or maybe pdoc has some other ideas abt where to get a t? Meds alone are not going to fix this for you.
I don't think the counselling centre will see me. They work on short term problems. They told me I need long term therapy. My pdocs aren't very helpful in referring me to therapy either. I think I have to do my own research. The only problems is that I'm too afraid to do this research. I'm too afraid to phone people up and ask questions and go to strange buildings.
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> You might ask pdoc if there is a way to get into DBT. Some people find it very helpful and others don't, but I think some of the focus on interpersonal relationships could be really helpful to you.I don't think there is DBT here. So far no one knows anything about it here.
I don't know if I want to do therapy. I'm not sure that it will help me. I also don't have a lot of money to spend and I only have a student drug insurance plan right now.P-doc2 told me that therapy is not a magic cure-all. He told me that I have to work to help myself.
Deneb
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