Do you go to counseling?

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Do you see a counselor for your problems? I've returned to counseling after stopping for a few years. My new counselor seems like a really nice person and I really believe that she will be able to help me understand myself better.

I tell my psychologist about my problems. But it isn't really just counseling, he's still trying to figure out what's wrong with me... I'm still going thru an assessment period. Usually assessments last half a day. Well, I was found to be very depressed after the first half day and prescribed Celexa, but I never got a diagnosis for anything. My assessment period has been going on for almost 2 months!

I have my first appointment tomorrow afternoon. Ha, now that it's finally here, I don't really want to go at all.

Hm... My counselor said she was glad I was eager to come see her, because she says a lot of people are very reluctant to go.

I've had Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Does that count?

I later tried Old-fasioned Psychotherapy, which was an absolute disaster.

I did have counselling a while ago, for depression, not AS - although looking back I suspect the two were connected. It did help quite a lot, but I was very lucky with the counsellor I got to see.

I was the one to originally push for it (being a minor, I have to have parental consent, and my parent isn't too thrilled about it (the other doesn't even know)), and I would like to be able to sort some of this out... I just don't want to have to face someone new; I all ready have trouble telling my problems to people I've known for awhile. It'll be all right though, I guess.

my mom never got around to making my appointments, and i got kicked off a client list at the guidance center. but its not like they would be much help anyways, they only provide group counseling, and not individual/

I go to anger management counseling once a month.

grr.

do you guys have counseling in a group or is it more private?

My counseling is one-on-one.

I went to my first one on Tuesday but it was more of getting to know me part because she asked me questions about myself but no way i was going to talk about my whole chilhood because I don't know all of it but my mother knows more. I am seeing her again on Sept. 18th

no but I would like too

No, I dont need one.

I'm currently in college and don't have the time or money.

My doctor has suggested this to me. Can you elaborate on it a bit? Was it effective? What did it involve? Would you recommend it to a fellow quixotic manic soul?

I have a hard, hard time stomaching the notion of going to see a councelor. Intrinsically, I just can't seem to find any faith in someone else to help me with my problems; call me arrogant if you like; but I imagine I would be advesarial from the onset; the notion is making me agitated right now. I just can't see it as being productive. Maybe I'm being small-minded.

But, genearlly speaking, I consider you all to be my councelors. I seek, and often find, a certain degree of catharsis through my ramblings here on the forums, my interactions with the various souls here. I often get caught up in trying to help others with their difficulties (i.e. I am the counsellor), but these endeavors often end up helping me in turn, often in ways I don't expect. In all honesty, RainSong has been my best and most effective counceller here so far; I find a delightful irony in this, as she is less than half my age.

Good fortune,

- Icarus the Difficult