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Therapists
They're not bad or anything, but sometimes I feel that I'm wasting my money in something rather inconsequential.
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I hear from some people that getting therapy is a really good idea, but it did little for me, so I suppose it's a personal thing. All the same, you're probably best off augmenting therapy with some form of medication. Cymbalta's a pretty good antidepressant. It takes a couple of weeks to kick in, though. On the other hand, the occasional nausea hurt my sleeping patterns and my capacity to climax was pretty badly hurt.
I guess I'd advocate combining therapy and medication. When you've improved to an extent where you're solving problems, you might be able to take the meds down a notch, or even give them up entirely.
I'm wary of medication. How do you know that it's safe even after the side effects? And doctors tend to prescribe it a lot even when you don't need it, which is of course bad.
As for therapy, it depends on how willing both the therapist and the patient are to listen to each other.
^ I actually had a really good therapist. Very engaging, active and personable, and wasn't afraid to stick it to me a bit if I was being a bitch, which I appreciated. I just think it wasn't for me.
And yeah, Asperger's. For that, I think you'll benefit less from general therapy and more from cognitive training that deals with your Asperger's particular effects. From what I hear, that's got elements of therapy but aims to be more proactive.
Since then I've realized that no therapist or career counselor or whatever can answer the question of what I should do with my life.
All the best.
"No therapist or careers counsellor or whatever can answer the question of what I should do with my life."
Seconded. I've never seen a "proper" therapist although I have seen a workplace counsellor over stress and used a careers adviser in the past. In the end, all any of them can do is ask questions, get you thinking and maybe provide a bit of guidance. It's still you that has to make the decisions.
Except no, they're basically just there to bounce one's questions and ideas and leads off of. Which is better than nothing, but not as dramatically revelating as I would hope.
Glenn - The result of me seeing that careers adviser, nearly ten years ago now, was that I joined the organisation I now work for. Which has since made me redundant twice (I was able to transfer from closing branches to ones that were staying open, both times), put me on a pay freeze for the last 2 years and is now messing with my pension rights. This affects lots of other staff too, by the way; they don't hate me personally.
I could blame it all on the careers adviser, but that would be pathetic. I did what I wanted to and it seemed a good choice at the time, and I think that's how it always is with advice.
(being serious here)
In any case, therapy isn't an instant job or anything so I'd at least try to give it time.
/waits for someone to get the joke
>Fag
>Cigarette
>"I should get some ice for that burn"
It's the Queen's fucked up English.
;_;