Posted by rnny on May 12, 2010, at 18:23:32
In reply to The course of therapy, posted by wittgensteinz on May 12, 2010, at 18:01:39
When I went into therapy, I was depressed and thought naively so, that there was some cure I would undergo and then therapy would be over. Maybe 3 months at most. The longer I stuck around more "fresh material" would surface and I liked having someone to talk to about the stuff. So I chose to have the therapy continue. And it did, for years. The therapist I had made it clear however that the goal of a therapist (or at least her goal) is/was to get the client to stand on their own two feet without the therapist to lean on. But as I found out, getting to that point can take different amounts of time depending on the client. You are blessed to have a T who hasn't tried to push you out the door. I see a new T now as the other one retired and the new one is also a 'long term' type T if that is what a person needs. I have to crack up when I read psych articles and it says something like "Normally 8 sessions should take care of this" and stuff like that. I shake my head and think, "OMG, not for me."
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