Posted by pegasus on November 3, 2004, at 13:16:57
In reply to The 2nd Group Session, posted by cubic_me on November 3, 2004, at 12:54:44
Oh, wow, I hear this! That's how I felt in group as well. Especially because I wasn't nearly as assertive as other people in the group. So we spent a lot of time working on the assertive people's stuff, and very little directly on mine. For which I blame the group leaders, but having someone to blame didn't really help the situation.
I also had issues with suicidal thoughts and SI. My reason for being in the group was to try to become more comfortable talking about my SI to other people. But group didn't realy accomplish that for me. I just felt more hidden and secretive.
I'm really concerned about your group being offered to you only as a substitute for individual therapy. Especially since you have a history of suicidal thoughts, and you have an agreement not to contact the group leader outside of sessions. My experience has been that group sometimes brings up stuff that I *need* to go over in my individual therapy. I wouldn't want to do a group without also an individual therapist.
I can see how you'd feel that you've been left high and dry. Can you talk about this with the facilitator in a session, or before or after one? Or can you contact your old T and mention it? You really need to have more support than this, I think.
Much luck!
pegasus
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