Posted by baseball55 on July 7, 2013, at 20:24:25
In reply to Trying to keep a promise...., posted by Twinleaf on July 7, 2013, at 19:20:48
I've been feeling like I am toward the end of therapy as well. I see two therapists. One, a p-doc whom I have seen for 8-1/2 years. I had major transference issues with him and would freak everytime he went away (and, to his credit, he never goes away longer than two weeks - if he was one of these therapists who take six week vacations, I don't know I I could have handled it. ) Now I see him once a month and am thinking about cutting back to once every other month for meds and just to check in. Still, the thought of his retiring upsets me. Knowing I have access to him is still important to me.
My second therapist is a social worker who specializes in DBT. She helped pull me out of three years of severe depression and suicidal ideation and attempts. But I've been much better for the last year and find we don't have that much to say. I cut back from once a week to every other week with her and am now wondering if I could cut back to once a month.
So, like you, I feel ready to cut back and start moving on, but I want to do it on my terms, not have either of them move away or retire. (My p-doc is 74 but says he has no plans to retire right now.)
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