Posted by pegasus on November 7, 2004, at 14:31:30
In reply to Re: The 2nd Group Session » pegasus, posted by cubic_me on November 5, 2004, at 18:32:48
Wow, cubic, you can't even have a brief phone chat with your old T? That's really sad and sounds hard. No wonder you don't feel sufficiently supported.
Your plan sounds reasonable to me, except that I'm really worried about you dealing with such strong suicidal thinking on your own. I bet that if any of the professionals involved knew about that, they would want to get you better support as well. But I can understand you point about wanting to protect the group from that emotional turmoil.
Personally, I found that group wasn't incredibly helpful for me. Where I was with my issues, and what my personality is like, are not really right for the group setting. At times they really pushed me to share, when I was definitely not ready to. That felt scary and threatening to me. Plus then I had a lot of guilt about not participating fully.
On the other hand, a couple of times I got some helpful insights. But in general I have to say that I've gotten much more out of individual therapy. I don't see group as being a more advanced thing (i.e., closer to cured). It's just a totally different type of thing. It didn't work well for me. But it seems to be very beneficial for other folks.
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