Higher frequency therapy

[SophieBernstein]

It's ok if you need to go more times per week. it's depends on your process. I've been in therapy usually 1 per week but it's not strange going two per week or even 6 per week sometimes. Don't be worried, sometimes we need it.

 

[mylunareclipse]

I understand how you feel the first three years I was going in therapy once a week and I thought that was the normal and I could never get more. Now I go to therapy 4x a week and this seems normal (actually can’t believe I used to do 1x week). Lean into the help that’s being offered to you if you can.

 

[whiteraven]

Just because a provider does not bill for you, or is not a preferred provider (paying thousands to tens of thousand per year)? Does NOT mean you cannot bill your own insurance, yourself.

Yeah, but you have to have the money upfront to pay the provider, and I just don't have the money to pay what providers are asking these days.

 

[Adobe]

Any words of wisdom from anyone whose got though to the other side of high frequency therapy? I'm at 3 hours a week now, recommended by my T as I'm struggling and they felt upping contact would help. This feels so 'abnormal' from the standard 50 mins a week and my head is exploding with how much of a nightmare client I must be. I've tried to talk about it with them, they keep talking about how it's just a stage of growth, that it's healthy. My head doesn't compute. Healthy to me is never having to turn up in a therapy office ever again! I just want to be average.

Are you in crisis in their opinion or are you going through Dialectical Behavior Therapy? perhaps a question to the therapist would help. This is definitely immersion. I certainly hope this method works for you and you are able to appropriate and experience a breakthrough. I understand wanting to be average. However, what is average? Depends on the numbers. Compared to the greatest thinkers in the world I am below average by far. Just be you ,present and aware . As a wise man once said to me ,”eat the meat and leave the bones.“ Don’t try to get it all in those hours. Just find several ah hah moments. It will be interesting to see how you feel as this progresses. Keep in touch. Hope you make great steps toward wholeness and healing.

 

[Midnightmoon]

Are you in crisis in their opinion or are you going through Dialectical Behavior Therapy? perhaps a question to the therapist would help. This is definitely immersion. I certainly hope this method works for you and you are able to appropriate and experience a breakthrough. I understand wanting to be average. However, what is average? Depends on the numbers. Compared to the greatest thinkers in the world I am below average by far. Just be you ,present and aware . As a wise man once said to me ,”eat the meat and leave the bones.“ Don’t try to get it all in those hours. Just find several ah hah moments. It will be interesting to see how you feel as this progresses. Keep in touch. Hope you make great steps toward wholeness and healing.

I've been at higher frequency for a few months now. Still struggling with the intrusive thoughts of 'why are you not just normal' but stuck with it and trying to trust my T that they know what I need. It's psychodynamic. I have no support network- no family/ friends and I can't work so no colleagues either. It feels incredibly embarrassing, and I think I worry that the frequency came from a place of pity, even though that's probably an intrusive thought too. It must be doing something, because for the first time in two years I managed to give a second of eye contact. Healing is slow

 

[Adobe]

I've been at higher frequency for a few months now. Still struggling with the intrusive thoughts of 'why are you not just normal' but stuck with it and trying to trust my T that they know what I need. It's psychodynamic. I have no support network- no family/ friends and I can't work so no colleagues either. It feels incredibly embarrassing, and I think I worry that the frequency came from a place of pity, even though that's probably an intrusive thought too. It must be doing something, because for the first time in two years I managed to give a second of eye contact. Healing is slow

Healing is slow. It is a journey, I have been told and not a destination. Someone said to me. “ I am not what I used to be. I am not what I want to be, I am not what I will be , but thank God I am what I am.” I for one have to rest in that fact and not ruminate over the past, not worry about the future as it will come in its own time. Staying present is a challenge for so many of us. Therapy reminds us of that. It sounds from your email…what I discern maybe is you are a little more settled in this journey. When we look at people and assume they are normal we do not see the whole story. We are all flawed. The wonderful thing about so many of the people with cptsd/ ptsd is we recognize we are flawed and have a pathology. Many of the people we see as normal just live life but never deal with it. It sounds to me like you are dealing with life. Here’s to each day, one at a time and to break through. I will think of you and say a prayer.

 

[Friday]

Yeah, but you have to have the money upfront to pay the provider, and I just don't have the money to pay what providers are asking these days.

In the US there are medical grants & medical loans which cover that shortfall. To be repaid after insurance reimburses.

They are the most easily granted, as preauthorization from your insurance company stands as collateral.

It still means a f*ckton of paperwork, phone calls, and other things people often simply aren’t capable of… but I’d been in school/working in healthcare for yeeeears before I found out about them.

(Whilst my son was inpatient at a Children’s hospital, the social workers there gave us all the tips/tricks/cheat-sheets for getting treatment once we LEFT the hospital, as the hospital provided best treatment regardless of ability to pay, as well as resources to supplement/survive in the outside world during long inpatient stays. Not just FMLA and similar… but govt programs that would not only keep power/water on, but be provided for free during the months impacted; emergency home repairs, the whole 9).

So in case it’s not a case of being unable to wrangle the bureaucracy, but simply not knowing such things exist.

 

[whiteraven]

t still means a f*ckton of paperwork, phone calls, and other things people often simply aren’t capable of

I suspect it also requires a provider that is willing to cooperate with it.