Posted by MissK on February 18, 2008, at 21:48:33
In reply to Re: Therapy - Bang for the Buck? » MissK, posted by Dinah on February 18, 2008, at 10:17:22
>My therapist and I, have discussed this topic at enormous length and excruciating detail. And to me, what we have concluded is the important thing.
And so my original statement of : I think there are those that want it as a part of their life for a long time. As long as they distinguish that is what they are doing and distinguish who this person is in their lives, I won't say it is wrong or right.
And you know what? Even when I terminate therapy, I may have a mind to continue it in a 'maintenance' sort of way, perhaps once a month or once every six weeks or two months because I do recognize and appreciate what 'having a talk' with a professional therapist provides. By then though it will serve a different function for me; I hope I would no longer see it or experience it as needing it to cope.
>And that a more efficacious response might be to extol the virtues of focused short term or medium therapy. Or to talk about how one is looking forward to termination and to moving on in life.
Good point. I hope to be able to do that in the next few months or so.
>After all, few people are likely to say "My god, you're right! I've been a bloody fool. I shall go immediately and fire my therapist of fifty years, because no one else has ever pointed out with such eloquence the folly of my going to therapy for fifty years!"
That made me LOL.
> in that we both seem to be quite pragmatic. And expressing a gladness to get the chance to talk to you on Babble. So I'll just include that here. :)
Well, believe it or not, I am more of a dreamer and feeler and emotional sort. Sometimes though dealing with hard things in life demands a certain pragmatism.
> And expressing a gladness to get the chance to talk to you on Babble. So I'll just include that here. :)
Thank you, for the kind sentiment. :)
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