My first therapy session...

Doulich · 2015-05-30T22:04:18+00:00

Ask your therapist. Honestly, I wouldn't trust a random person on the internet to help you get over this traumatic event.

Go ask your therapist for coping strategies.

Leastohm · 2015-05-30T23:11:15+00:00

I can only tell you what works for me, meditation. I've started incorporating my past events that would cause me a great deal of anxiety into my mindfulness exercises. It allows me to explore my feelings and memories while also staying apart of myself so I can analyze it objectively and begin to try to understand.

But as /u/Doulich points out, ask your therapist, I am not a professional nor do I speak to one.

favours_of_the_moon · 2015-05-30T22:19:53+00:00

YOu need catharsis.

Get it all out!

Overzealous_BlackGuy · 2015-05-30T23:59:43+00:00

My experience with a therapist is that there more for listening an observing, not necessarily that great at troubleshooting and fixing you. It sounds like a joke but you ha ve towant to fix your problem and k ow what it is. Tel the therapist this, and he can work with you to better locate what the problem is. I do t k ow if u tried this method yet but this should work.

edwardhwhite · 2015-05-31T00:20:16+00:00

You learn to ride out the bad feelings until they pass. That takes time and work. Do the work and you will get the results. Trust me it gets a bit worse, then a lot better.

blackhawks93 · 2015-05-31T00:50:42+00:00

For me, who was in a similar position, running and swimming really helped me. You should already be weightlifting but incorporate some sprints or swims into your routine. When I get emotional (for lack of a better word) I start dead out sprinting or do butterfly (swim) and it leaves me exhausted. I also have spent time sitting alone in a dark room and meditating (with and without cannabis) so I can meditate on the event and let my emotion out. I have punched/broken a few things out of anger when I let it out but I feel like I'm in a much better position now.

dustyterran · 2015-05-31T01:05:00+00:00

Psych major with a long term goal of becoming a clinician, take that for what it is.

Therapy is a very slow, long process in many cases. Essentially, a lot of mental illness, for a lack of better terminology, is difficult to assess/fix/adjust because of a few reasons. 1. there is most likely more than one problem, and 2. it is abnormal, but you may not see the abnormality of the situation. It's great you accept that you have an issue at hand, now your therapist needs find what is going to work. Stylistically, his type of therapy may not work for you, in which case I encourage you to seek a second opinion. Regardless, it's going to take a long time to fix most issues, which is why a lot of patients drop out of treatment: it's hard and requires an investment into the hardship.

The difference between physical ailments and mental illness is that physically, there are usually set guidelines that a doctor employs to adjust things like bad posture or a sprained ankle. With mental illness, you cannot employ the same style of treatment, it needs to be almost personalized to the patient, and the patient needs to relearn a lot of skills during treatment, such as stress management, problem-solving approaches, the list goes on.

Give yourself time, it's going to be hard, but it'll be harder if you live your life with the mental illness untreated.

shock-combo · 2015-05-31T01:09:45+00:00

you may benefit from meditation, check out the kiloby method. it may seem out there but psych k or variations on it seem to help people as well.

last point, get some neutrigenomic testing make use you arent living with some untreated mutations like MAO A, aka the warrior gene. http://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/1rz29s/the_methylation_cycle_methylation_analysis_and/

Title	My first therapy session...
Author	Chocotop
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Date	May 30, 2015 8:51 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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