Help Psychologist is quitting, suggests I “work on myself”

[ladidabi]

I have no idea how to deal with this. A month before she is quitting she announces today at my appointment that she is quitting for new position.

What upsets me the most is that the past three appointments, she suggested joining STEPPS, a group program - which is previously have been against. I have my reasons to not do group, and no I understand why it was brought up again.

She said for now they doubt I can get any therapy individually like I do now, and would probably have to end up doing the "therapy" myself at home.

I feel hopeless. I don't want to lose the opportunity to talk, because I can't do this alone. I am getting better in comparison to last year, but that can't be the reason to let me go… especially since the doctor told me they want to put me on antidepressants after I finish tapering off quetiapine, which is basically them giving me meds and sending me off

 

[sadAndLost]

get a better therapist I would suggest.
But I've seen countless therapists through the years, and I took a lot of meds including quetiapine.
And I'm still suicidal and want to quit life

 

[ladidabi]

get a better therapist I would suggest.
But I've seen countless therapists through the years, and I took a lot of meds including quetiapine.
And I'm still suicidal and want to quit life

Do you mean private? I currently am under public healthcare

I'm sorry you're still there. I'm personally trying to avoid meds because long term use quetiapine has done damage, and I notice this especially starting to taper off…

 

[sadAndLost]

Do you mean private? I currently am under public healthcare

I'm sorry you're still there. I'm personally trying to avoid meds because long term use quetiapine has done damage, and I notice this especially starting to taper off…

yeah, a private therapist might help, but I don't sincerly believe a therapist can help
thank you.. yeah, avoid them as much as possible, it did some damage to me

 

[saultissad]

As someone who has been in therapy since I was 3, I find that most therapy is not very helpful.

 

[ladidabi]

As someone who has been in therapy since I was 3, I find that most therapy is not very helpful.

It hasn't necessarily been helpful to me either in terms of solving problems. However, it did give me some comfort being heard while unfiltered (to an extent, I'm not losing my license again). It made me feel validated. The only reason they are considering letting me go is solely because my therapist if quitting and they likely have no one to take that spot, or not enough workers to take all of her patients, considering they have multiple people. Every appointment I tell her how miserable I am, so this time it actually felt invalidating being told to do group therapy, or work on myself on my own. It's literally the ultimatum I got by my second therapist, when I was, and looked the worst.

I'm sorry you don't feel you get anything out of it.

 

[sorrynormal]

As someone who has been in therapy since I was 3, I find that most therapy is not very helpful.

As someone who has spent 23yrs in and out of therapy. Therapy is NOT about the client, its about who has the power to send you to one.