Posted by Jacintha on September 17, 2010, at 3:50:42
In reply to Re: Therapist says she can't help me » Jacintha, posted by Dinah on September 16, 2010, at 7:33:13
Thank you so much for answering.
Unfortunately finding someone else isn't an option. She's the only therapist available to me.
I'm not 100% clear on why exactly she can't help me because I'm still waiting on her to send her report to the psychiatrist (who referred me to her),and in my experience what doctors will say to you and what they say to others doctors doesn't always match.
What she said to me was that she felt it would make me worse and she went on about the whole do no harm thing and that she couldn't "in good conscience take me on as a patient".
It didn't really surprise me completely that she said it would make me worse because in the past the different therapists/counsellors I've seen has always made me worse. They'd always tell me that I just wasn't trying hard enough or I didn't want to improve or that I wasn't ready etc. That aggravated me no end because I knew it wasn't true and I'd be giving it my all. It was sort of nice for someone to finally say to me it's not that you don't want it or you won't try this just isn't right for you.
The general gist to me seemed to be that for therapy to work you need to be able to do like x,y,z..., but you're not capable of that so it's not going to work, instead it'll just stress me out even more since I'm being asked to do something I'm not capable of.
But all that just leaves me with nowhere else to turn to.
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