Have you participated in psychotherapy?

[Elok]

As a teen/young adult. Many different shrinks, with mixed results. I think mostly I benefited from ADD meds and antidepressants, the talk didn't do much. Probably because I never actually opened up to these people fully. One of them put me on Wellbutrin, and I was one of the rare cases in whom the drug causes seizures. One grand mal seizure, to be precise. That got me off both the drug and the shrink. Once I hit my twenties or so I stopped the stimulants--I figured out that I could concentrate without them by then--and years later I stopped using the Prozac. I'm not sure how much of my depression was plain biochemical malfunction and how much was a normal response to my aimless life. Life stopped feeling aimless after I met Shelok and got married. Also, ah, Prozac has certain side effects . . .

[Bereta_Eder]

I find it difficult to believe that you chose to spend your life with a reknowned morhpine hooked detective so there's not an "r" missing and it's just a name I never heard before

[Elok]

Shelok. She-Elok. My wife.

(if I meant "Sherlock" there'd also be a c missing there)

[Lorizael]

CBT as well as meds are bull and short lived.

It's nice that you think that, but the best evidence we have to date says otherwise.

Oh you feel bad? here's some farting excerise that will take your mind off it

I don't have any idea what this means.

[Pekka]

I just got approved for long therapy after 20 times. Goverment pays 70 % of her salary from me, so this will be the best scheme ever. She gets to fantasise about me and I get to unload my mental burden on her. The way I see it, we all win.

[rah]

If she is spending 30% of her time fantasizing about you then you shouldn't have to pay anything.

[Aeson]

I'm sure AAHZ can recommend payment options ...

[Kidlicious]

AAHZ sees both a psychologist and a psychiatrist. You see, I am certified and authentic Schizophrenic and Bi-Polar. Medicated. 51/50'd and the REAL DEAL. No fake crazy here to try to look scary. No self-diagnosed horse****. AAHZ as true as the sky is blue. A TRUE lunatic. a psycopath. a nutcase. high-risk. just plain-old, goddamn DERANGED.

'sup.

[ZEE]

I'm sure AAHZ can recommend payment options ...

I only see my psychiatrist twice a year and even without insurance they would only charge me $90 a visit. My Bi-polar medicine is only $20 without insurance, but my anti-schizo drug is the killer. With my insurance (that I might lose because of Trumpcare... oh well) it is affordable but without it I simply can't get it. I only take it once in a while anyway because it lowers my dopamine levels so low that I am asleep for ~12 hours after every pill. I ****ing hate that ****. I suggested alternatives to her but I am allergic to an entire class of drugs (they give me TD and seizures) and she said I get the best results with the one I am taking. Lowering the dose didn't help either. It does help my strange and deluded ideas that I soemtimes take too seriously. That said, I am sure I could function without it.

As far as my psycologist, it is useless visits TBH. I only go because my mom likes to sit in on the visits and I think she gets moar out of them than I do. I have interesting debates with him on my various mental outlooks at the time... but basically I do not feel compelled to go there for my long term mental health.

The only reason I take my bi-polar medicine every day is it doubles as an antihistamine and is the only pill short of Zyrtec that controls my allergies. I do not notice any significance as far as it helping my mood swings. I thought it was a placebo for a while before I noticed the antihistamine thing.

[giblets]

AAHZ sees both a psychologist and a psychiatrist. You see, I am certified and authentic Schizophrenic and Bi-Polar. Medicated. 51/50'd and the REAL DEAL. No fake crazy here to try to look scary. No self-diagnosed horse****. AAHZ as true as the sky is blue. A TRUE lunatic. a psycopath. a nutcase. high-risk. just plain-old, goddamn DERANGED.

'sup.

AAHZ is a real threat to public safety. Fortunately the FBI is watching him through his computer and television

[N35t0r]

I'm on SSRIs and also a low dose of anti-bipolar meds since ~6 months ago. I've struggled with depression for as long as I remember, but only since meeting my current wife have I managed to make any real effort to get my life on track.
I've been on SSRIs before, but my life at the time didn't really contribute to getting 'out of the hole'. I've also done psychotherapy (non-freudian) in the past, on several occasions, with different people and to varying successes. The one I recall had the best effect was a year and a half I was doing group therapy.

[ZEE]

AAHZ is a real threat to public safety. Fortunately the FBI is watching him through his computer and television

AAHZ is also walking around the streets at midnight gangbangin' Crip so I am on all sorts of watch lists.

**** is so cash.

[Broken_Erika]

Who needs psychotherapy, just read some George Carlin books.

[pchang]

CBT....

I don't think this means what you think it means......

[Dry]

Not sure if it counts as psychotherapy, but I once went to a therapist for a few sessions.

An emotionally shocking experience with a friend, made me change my whole perception of people, on life and society.
The change was brutal and a huge improvement. For years, I thought I was an alien on some alien planet, but then, I felt like a human being on planet earth. “"I am back on planet earth”" was what I told to my friends.

Too happy with the changes, my friends didn’'t want to hear anything about my old or new way of seeing the world and people. “"Don’'t live in the past”" was their message. I however, needed to talk about it. It was necessary for me, not only to in order to close the case, but also to be sure I was now on the right track. The fact that I had been wrong on human interactions once was not a good sign for me being right now. I clearly had a very bad sight when it came to simply being human.

So I went to that therapist and told her my story. She was so surprised on how I had perceived the world until then that we spent a lot of time on my past view. But eventually, I was able to validate with her my analysis and my new perspective.

So in short, the real work of getting out of my social awkwardness, finding out there was nothing intrinsically wrong with me, except I had a wrong perspective on people, I did it alone. I only went to see a professional to be sure I wasn’t delusional again.