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Posted by cubic_me on December 8, 2004, at 11:33:54
I've always been a good client, with my T and my pdoc. I get to my appointments on time, do what they tell me to do, take the meds as presribed etc etc. But now I'm fed up with it all. There doesn't seem any point to the group therapy I'm in, and I hate having the side effects from going on and off different drugs every few months. Going to my pdoc is a demoralising experience. He wants me to start a new med in January. I'll try this, but it may well be the last. I'm meant to be doing some CBT, but I can't be bothered to phone up and find out what's been going on with that, especailly when I'm not a big fan of CBT.
Maybe all this stuff I'm doing is doing me good, but I won't know unless I come off it I guess.
Posted by Dinah on December 8, 2004, at 11:43:14
In reply to I feel like giving up with getting better, posted by cubic_me on December 8, 2004, at 11:33:54
Hmmm... Do you think you're trying too hard to be a good patient? I think I got a lot better when I stopped trying so hard. I started being a lot more difficult about meds, and insisted on a level of them that I thought was useful to me.
And therapy. I started experiencing therapy more and not worrying about what I should do. Don't I recall that you thought you *should* move on to group therapy? Or since my brain is scrambled, I may have you confused with someone else.
Posted by Aphrodite on December 8, 2004, at 12:24:15
In reply to I feel like giving up with getting better, posted by cubic_me on December 8, 2004, at 11:33:54
I have been like this too. What I finally told my T last week was this: "I cannot try to be your favorite, unburdensome patient and get well as the same time. They are mutually exclusive." He seemed thrilled! Compliance to their wishes isn't going to get us well. We have to be active participants . . . and vocal ones, too.
Please do as I say, not as I do. :)
This is, of course, much harder than it sounds. Maybe you should resist the CBT treatment. Tell them what you think would really be helpful, and I'm sure it will be taken into consideration.
Don't give up, OK?
Posted by cubic_me on December 8, 2004, at 18:31:33
In reply to Re: I feel like giving up with getting better » cubic_me, posted by Dinah on December 8, 2004, at 11:43:14
> Don't I recall that you thought you *should* move on to group therapy?yep that was me! Maybe I'm not ready for group, maybe I'm not the type of person to benefit from group work. I get on well with other people, I have good friends. I don't feel the need to tell a group of randomly selected people all about me, however nice they are.
I think you are right about being more proactive with meds. I saw my pdoc today, last time I told him about concerns that my GP had about one med I was taking, this week he had printed out a meta-analysis of it and said I ought to look for more recent journals. I know that he was trying to be helpful, but I can find the journals for myself (i'm a med student) and it felt like he was giving me school homework!
Posted by cubic_me on December 8, 2004, at 18:36:06
In reply to the good patient » cubic_me, posted by Aphrodite on December 8, 2004, at 12:24:15
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> Don't give up, OK?I think I might try to please people too much to actually give up, however much I feel like it! If the next med works ok, even if it's not great, I'll try and shake off the pdoc and get prescriptions from my GP.
As for the CBT, I think I'll try and forget that. There are people on the NHS waiting list that actually *want* this treatment, and I shouldn't take it away from them.
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