Too Much Therapy/feeling Overwhelmed

[Briellewannabe]

I started seeing my current T in August, seeing her once a week. She's very nice, but very new. She found another T to do EMDR with me probono, so I've been doing that for little over a month now. The EMDR T wants to see me twice a week, and I wouldn't be paying her - again, she's doing it for free, but I feel like I already go to therapy twice (regular T and EMDR T) a week and 3 times seems excessive. I don't want to get overly dependent on them or this consume my life... Does anyone see their T multiple times a week?

Also, my T has been trying to get me to consider meds for a while (already posted about that) and I'm in the frustrating phase of trying to finalize my medi-cal stuff and find a psychiatrist.

I feel like this is taking over my life. I know the goal is for all this to actually help me enjoy life, or at least not hate it, but I'm feeling ridiculously weak and pathetic for the accumulation of these therapists and possibly psychiatrist...

Anyone else experience this? Like a failure of some sort? Any suggestions for how to overcome it? I feel like surrendering and just not going back to therapy because it seems daunting. It's been helpful, but daunting.

 

[Joan]

I agree that it is difficult to find a balance. I have in the past seen my trauma t twice a week plus an art therapist. I am not sure there is a right or a wrong, but for me if it became that is all I think about is therapy, going, homework, processing, then is too much. I guess a question to ask yourself is do you have other things in life that this much therapy might interrupt? things that you enjoy? relationships? For me I realized i cannot rush the process and need time between...while there are still times and weeks that I wish I had more. Not sure this is helpful or not....trust your gut I think.

 

[Freedomfighter]

I find myself shutting down and pushing everything away when it gets to be too much. To fight this condition is very very exhausting, especially when having to be functional in so many other different areas of life.

Currently I am physically sick and I so wish I could just get over that without having to worry about anything else.......

I am weak physically, still trying to get healthy, just not in a very strong place right now.

 

[Briellewannabe]

I agree that it is difficult to find a balance. I have in the past seen my trauma t twice a week plus an...

Thanks. I wish my gut had an incling. Just feeling very overwhelmed and don't know what to do.