seeing counsellor for 1st time tomorrow dont have a clue what to say....

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or in fact if its going to help. I have been on ads since Octobr last year so dont actually feel depressed as such just down as such - I have requested CBT thinking it sounded like it might help me but the more I think about what makes me unhappy most and causes me to feel anxious most its my dcs father dont see how counselling will help that - we have a very strange relationship we kind of get on but are not sexual anymore its all very weird - he is not interested in any sort of counselling so if I get counselling will it actually help me - I havent a clue what to say or what to sugest to the counsellor that I need its kind of an assessment to see what I need - anyone got any suggestions - please ?

oh we can compare notes tomorrow tonight - I'm also seeing a counsellor for the 1st time tomorrow (evening). No CBT - and it's just the assessment type thing - I need it to sort out "stuff" in my head (I think?) but tbh I'm not sure how I'm going to manage an hour of talking about myself

there isn't a right thing to say you go in say hi they say hello sit down check your name and then say something along the lines of what's troubling you then?

So you just say well I've been feeling rather down - they say ok how long has this been happening? you say since xyz they say ok ask a few questions like what has happened how does that make you feel ?

if you answer I don't know - then that is the answer they won't push you no bright lights or mhmm's

I have been so a few sessions through my life
the first few I found a little draining but better inside and from there on I knew it was helping to be able to speak to someone knowing that they were just there to listen and probe a little as to why I felt in such a way.
The last time I saw a therapist it was for PND and truly no one around me understood they all thought I was a horrible person who hated her child.
Seeing a therapist helped me get to I was just a scared person who loved her child and learnt how to switch off the over thinking and trust my instincts.

• here's to happiness ladies!