I have undergone CBT with 5 therapists and so I am quite experienced with it. Every time I have been left completely and utterly disappointed.
One of the unfortunate problems I faced with psychotherapy was the convenient shift of outcome being dependent on the quality of care given by the therapist to the mental fortitude of the patient following through on their exercises. In every case it was my fault that I wasn't progressing, and I found this to be extremely frustrating.
It would go something like "Did your CBT methods help you not have a panic attack?", "No they didn't work and I threw up and collapsed in a Starbucks bathroom". "Oh well just practice more and identify those bad thoughts better and earlier and do some more breathing exercises and it will work out fine!"
My very last encounter with psychotherapy is when I went to a doctor and explained that CBT doesn't work for me and that I was looking for someone else who practiced other methods, and yet again they claimed that I needed more practice and that I probably had not mastered CBT. Although we don't practice lobotomies anymore, if you have severe issues mental health treatment is still in the stone age.
One of the unfortunate problems I faced with psychotherapy was the convenient shift of outcome being dependent on the quality of care given by the therapist to the mental fortitude of the patient following through on their exercises. In every case it was my fault that I wasn't progressing, and I found this to be extremely frustrating.
It would go something like "Did your CBT methods help you not have a panic attack?", "No they didn't work and I threw up and collapsed in a Starbucks bathroom". "Oh well just practice more and identify those bad thoughts better and earlier and do some more breathing exercises and it will work out fine!"
My very last encounter with psychotherapy is when I went to a doctor and explained that CBT doesn't work for me and that I was looking for someone else who practiced other methods, and yet again they claimed that I needed more practice and that I probably had not mastered CBT. Although we don't practice lobotomies anymore, if you have severe issues mental health treatment is still in the stone age.