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Zorc ge...@blueyonder.co.uk
spoiler,may conaint possible triggers * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Not even sure if this will trigger but I thought I would play it safe.
I am just writing to ask if anyone has any comments on this matter. I have just been informed last week that in five weeks my therapist of four years is leaving to start a new life. She has suggested group therapy. I have been in group therapy before when I lived in a supported housing project. I hated it and always felt like I could not talk. I am afriad that I will have the same feelings. I get to the point where I get scared to get up as I do not want to go.
I have had a tough time recently. I feel like crap and tried to kill myself last week as I am ****en fed up of this shit.(apoligies for the language). Every time I start to think things will be ok, something bad happens. I am starting to feel that life is not worth it.
Anyway I will shut up and let you get on. Please I would be interested to here about peoples experiences with this. I have also told my therapist that I will only go to group therapy if I will get individual support. I would rather have none than group alone.Thanks for listering
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ZORC;) LIVE LONG AND PROSPER ..
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Criswell The Psychic Weatherman ssen...@mindless.com
I applaud your knowledge of what seems to work and not work for you, and your ability to express it. Unfortunately, "the system" can't always provide what we need, but what it is able to provide. Our only Psychiatric Emergency Room, CPEP, is going to close as of January 2003. There are already too many people in this area close to suicide, attempting suicide, and succeeding at suicide. Already, just from the announcement of CPEP's closing, I've seen anxieties rise to dangerous levels. I've made a number of attempts myself, so I know how the ideation works in my case. I've also felt the extreme despair and frustration and uselessness of trying to know and figure out what to say to help. If individual therapy is what you need, then push for it by any and all means available to you. If you know the group therapy will only silence you and build up the anxieties inside, then resist it with all your power. Not much else I can say, except refelcting what you've said in your post. At this point, I don't feel it's necessary to give you my suicide inventory and history, but I'm not ashamed or afraid to talk about it. If you want to know, just ask.
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"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind." Robert Bolton Criswell The Psychic Weatherman ssen...@mindless.com
whiskers catwhee...@operamail.com
snip snip Could you try a session with the group before your present therapist leaves?
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metaphorSPAMBL ...@usaor.net (Stewart/sna)
I ***ume you're also doing medication. Tho it sounds like it's not working so well.
Ooops, I should read ahead before I start responding. Sounds like a plan to me. It's what I did.
Sincerely Stewart
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Zorc ge...@blueyonder.co.uk
Criswell The Psychic Weatherman wrote: It's ***ame that a last hope of saftey for you is closing down. I have myself tried taking a number of overdoses. I always get asked if i really wanted to kill myself. The only answer I can ever give is "at the time, yes I did". I have a few sessions left with my therapist so I will wait and see what happens.
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Zorc ge...@blueyonder.co.uk
The referal prosess take to long. I am not sure exactly how long but from what people have told me who go there six months or so. It does not look promising. I will keep trying.
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Zorc ge...@blueyonder.co.uk
Going to try for that. I am not sure wether I am allowed to do both. I live in the UK so this is the NHS we are talking about. I have to take what I get given. All I can say is I will NOT go to group without indivual support.
Yes I was on Amitripaline(not sure of spellings), Zoplicone and some stuff form my stomach. They got taken off me last week after the suicide attempt. I wish someone had told me that if i took the antidepressent it would of killed me. I ***umed they did not. Any way I have to have a week free. This eneds tomorrow and I see my psyc so will push for more meds. They do not like giving me them though. I do not sleep with out them and I am aready crawling the walls!
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Zorc ge...@blueyonder.co.uk
Just to let you know that my diagnosis is Boderline Personality disorder.
Do not know if this helps at all. I hate going out which is why she suggested it.
I do not know if I will bother at all when she leaves. It feels like there is no point anymore:(
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Criswell The Psychic Weatherman ssen...@mindless.com
Fortunately, lately, my anxiety level has been far lower than it had been when I was frequently suicidal. The closing of CPEP will likely not affect me as much as others who are far closer to that edge. CPEP is very important here, as is Three-Six, the Psych unit for the same Hospital. It is for others more than myself that I am worried about the effect of CPEP's closing, but since I know in my case how rapidly the ideation comes, yes, I am worried that I might need CPEP and it won't be there after January, unless some method of keeping it profitable is found. I don't see this as happening, since many of us are financially strapped to begin with, can't afford insurance, etc.
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"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind." Robert Bolton Criswell The Psychic Weatherman ssen...@mindless.com
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