Does anyone have experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy for trauma?
I am finding psychotherapy difficult and am ambivalent about continuing. Specifically, the sessions are having a knock-on effect on my life outside of psychotherapy: my relationships, my work, anxiety levels, my eating, my sleep...I am going to speak to my treatment team about these effects but I am not sure that this difficult work can possibly be worth it.
I am not concerned about my safety (such as suicide or self-harm risk) nor about my ability to do my job - my employer are great, and my job is demanding but also somehow a soothing distraction. However, I am concerned about my relationships which seem to be suffering from collateral damage, and about my eating and sleeping which are really quite disrupted.
Does anyone have any advice on how to explain this to my therapist and psychiatrist, and/or practical strategies for the difficult times between the sessions? I am open to stopping going to psychotherapy or changing to a different therapeutic approach if either of those turns out to be the overall best thing to do, but wondered if anyone has any other suggestions I have not thought of yet.
Thanks MN.
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Trauma work in psychotherapy and keeping on keeping on
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erinaceus · 22/06/2016 05:59
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