Therapy

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I (20F) have been diagnosed with depression for over 8 years. I've also been medicated since then. I have been seeing a therapist for about 8 months now (every week) and I feel like nothing has really changed. We talk, I cry, I answer her questions, but I don't feel better. Nothing has changed about the way that I am feeling and I am not sure if my counselor even truly understands what is bothering me or if I can be "fixed". I have never had that "aha" moment that I feel other people have gotten. A lot of my depression is existential, which means that I am obviously troubled by things that I do not expect my counselor to answer for me. I don't expect her to tell me what the purpose of life is or anything like that. But the more we have these meetings, I feel further and further from getting better. Its almost as if therapy has solidified the idea that I cant get better and nothing will change for me. I started seeing a therapist as a last resort because I really needed help finding a reason to go on. But I still haven't found one, even after all of this time with her. Does this actually work for other people? What am I doing wrong? Edit: My official diagnosis is Persistent depressive disorder with major depressive episodes submitted by /u/Traditional_Act_8559 to r/mentalhealth [link] [comments]

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I hope my title made some sense but if not I will try to explain. 8 years ago I (33f now) met a young widower (35m now) who had a 6 year old daughter (14f now). He and his late wife had technically been separated at the time of her death and so he was ready to move on but I believe his daughter needed help and a few times before we got married I said as much and I was told she was just more reserved by nature and she'd come around to me in time. This wasn't just my husband saying this either. His whole family were saying the same thing. They told me the proof was in the fact she wasn't being blatantly rude or disrespectful and wasn't throwing tantrums or acting out. I tried to build a good relationship with my stepdaughter but the more that time moved forward, the less it seemed likely or possible. She wasn't outright angry but she wouldn't open up to me or willingly spend any 1:1 time with me. She spent 1:1 time with her dad but at a certain point (when he and I had our first child) this also changed. Once I was pregnant with our first child her behavior did change. She started getting angry, started cursing at me and yelling at her dad for having another baby. She told him he betrayed her mom and she wasn't going to accept our child as a sibling or accept him being a dad to someone else's baby. After I gave birth my husband did put my stepdaughter in therapy (or so he told me) and he said he realized help was needed. But when I was pregnant with our second child I found out this wasn't really true. He instead took her to classes that were supposed to prepare kids for being an older sibling and was meant to help get them excited for a younger sibling. This was going on for months before I realized and he argued at the time that it was a form of therapy. I started speaking up more about my stepdaughter needing therapy and it was at that point my husband and his family were acting like I was some monster. They asked me why I kept trying to force the issue and why I couldn't accept her the way she was. While all this was going on I never left her around the kids. She was also moving stuff and hiding stuff on me whenever she was home. She moved/hid the baby bottles, my phone charger, diapers, my phone and many other things, even food! She would say in front of the whole family that she hated the kids and wish they had never been born. But they were shocked and didn't know what to say to me when I said she needed therapy. They said they felt like I was saying there was something wrong with her or saying she was a monster. I told my husband actual therapy was needed or I would be done. He told me I needed to trust him as he's her parent and he knows her better than I do. Thanksgiving was my final straw. She told several of her cousins that she was going to break all her siblings toys and she was going to make sure they were so fucked up from this Christmas because she hated them and wanted them to pay. I wasn't the only person who heard this. But I did insist that was exactly why therapy was needed because she was bragging about wanting to upset her siblings. Yet again I was the monster though. Even my husband refused to accept she needed help. I was so tired of being the monster because I believed my stepdaughter needed therapy, and a lot of therapy at this point. That night I slept on the couch and the next morning I told my husband I was done. I waited for the next day because I asked my parents if me and the kids could say and they didn't get back to me until very late. My husband wasn't expecting me to say it was over. But I told him I was done and I explained why. I have already filed for divorce and to my husband (will be ex) and his parents that is the worst thing. They keep making a point out of leaving before Christmas and we never even tried therapy with my husband. Christmas and not going to therapy have been sticking points. But I wouldn't go with him after everything. He already lied to me once. He and his family have been calling me a monster. And his daughter is giddy about terrorizing our children which he has zero issue with. AITAH? submitted by /u/Katiroytr to r/AITAH [link] [comments]

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(Copy Pasted from a reply I wrote in another post) "This is exactly why I don't like seeing people say "go to therapy" and why I never tell people that as "advice". It's pointless. Like yes, clearly anyone would love to have a trained, understanding and competent professional to spend hours talking through their problems with them, but: 1) It is eye-wateringly expensive, and is charged by the hour. 2) Take the hourly rate and multiply that by the fact that it is realistically going to take many, maybe tens-of or even a hundred or more hours for even a skilled therapist to truly understand enough about you, your problems and the narrative of your life to be able to actually give you constructive and helpful advice. Many people literally see a therapist for years. They literally need to know about your life almost as much as a close friend or relationship partner and again, you're paying them per hour for this. 3) Like any doctor type, there is a high chance many therapists just aren't that great, competent or even just right for you. In fact higher, because you're not looking for a fixed treatment for a known malady, you need someone who "gets" you and knows the right things to say to open doors / break barriers in your psyche and that is vague as hell, hard, requires empathy AND often works best with plenty of prior experience with situations similar to yours, all of which are by no means guaranteed. So it's like you need tons of money and time and if it doesn't work or the therapist needs to leave for whatever reason you need to switch and start all over again. The more niche your situation the worse it is, because good luck finding a therapist with the background/experience to understand the issue. I honestly think at this point, almost any sane person asking for advice online ALREADY KNOWS "go to therapy" is the ideal option, they just can't/can't afford to make that option work for them. It seriously almost sounds like "Well, have you tried fixing the issue?" Therapy has frankly been a complete non-starter for me and has always felt like I'm just burning money for little to no gain. I'm sure it works for some, but I've generally found I get better results from anonymously asking for opinions/advice from groups of people who hopefully have some experience or knowledge with the issue I'm struggling with (Hence why I use Reddit) or talk to someone who knows me well and who I can trust about it, then figure the rest out myself and decide how I want to handle things through self reflection." submitted by /u/RevolutionaryEye5320 to r/DeepThoughts [link] [comments]

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