Posted by Squiggles on August 10, 2007, at 14:29:55
In reply to Re: getting back into therapy. » Squiggles, posted by sunnydays on August 10, 2007, at 14:21:17
> The insight can let you know why you react the way you do to certain things. I have found that once I know that, I can work to change how I react. And then I am no longer controlled by the pain from the past. I am able to make my own choices and live my own life. And yes, medication has helped me in that aspect, and I do see a nurse practitioner who presribes my medication. But that isn't to numb the pain... it's to change the parts of my pain that are biological, to 'fix' them as it were.
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> I'm sorry you don't see therapy as something that can be beneficial, but if by nothing more than allowing me to take some control over my life, it has been beneficial to me.
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> sunnydaysThat sounds miraculous. I thought that development of the personality stopped at 18. That's what Aristotle thought too.:-) If it can be done, great, but what about situations where you can change your response through therapy but an abuser can't, won't or will kill you if you try to stand up to him?
That is the kind of psychoanalysis that people need; what Ts do is never that heavy.
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