Topics from November’s meeting. Feel free to comment:
- What to do with internal silence
- Dealing with pain
- How do you know when you’re done with therapy or working on things?
- Trust
- Dealing with your behavior
- Feelings about the concept of integration
New Landscape ~ DID/MPD Support Group
New York support group for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) / Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
How do you know when you are done with therapy. Hmm. That is something I’ve been thinking about lately. For about two years, I was seeing my therapist once a month because I didn’t want to just quit therapy because I thought I was fine, even if I wasn’t. Last summer, we weren’t able to schedule a meeting for the next time when I saw her in August, and it was the middle of October before I even thought about therapy. I saw her in November and December, and then we didn’t have a meeting scheduled for January, and then life got busy and money got tight, and I haven’t been back. I do want to at least schedule a session to say goodbye for now, but it hasn’t felt urgent. There are things I could talk about with her, but it’s been a few years since I last needed to process through trauma stuff, and most of what I have talked about in therapy has been either telling her how I dealt with a situation or talking about things I talk with my friends about.
So I guess for me how I know I’m ready to finish being in therapy is when I can deal with hard situations in a healthy way, and I have friends and other support people who are able to help me think things through. I guess some of it is having the tools to cope and knowing how to use them, and actually being able to use them when things get hard.