Posted by finelinebob on August 16, 2006, at 20:33:58
In reply to Re: Why terminate therapy? long, posted by Tabitha on August 16, 2006, at 1:11:59
> But... I'm not understanding what you said about accentuating the positive-- is your therapist wanting you to terminate or wanting you to continue? Are you wanting to terminate? If so, for what reason besides saving money?
Actually, it was kind of the other way around re: the termination issue -- so many discussions going on about it, I'm just wondering what prompts that response in people. No longer worth the money? Need to leap out of the "nest" and test your wings on your own? Just curious.
As for accentuating the positive, I guess it's kinda like this. I've been screwed up since childhood and have developed a large repertoire of screwed up behaviors, social blindspots, whatever. So, now that the biological aspects of my disorder appear to be well managed and now that it appears that my T and me have really dug out the roots of a lot of problems I was having ... well, she wasn't just going let me stop at that, and I didn't want to either.
We may have gotten me turned around and facing the right direction. Now, we're taking a good long hard look at how to get me taking off in a good trajectory in that direction.
Besides, I was wandering my way around the verse of an old song in that paragraph that happens to start with "you have to accentuate the positive..."
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