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My therapy has been over phone so there isn't really facial cues but yeah, if I manage to mutter a vague sound they will stop and say what and I can end up talking then fortunately. It is harder than if things were just balanced though but oh well. I hope it ends up useful in the end, too early to tell

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My therapist (who is very good at his job) will basically lead the conversation constantly, until I want to talk about something myself, and then he just says nothing and listens the whole time until I stop talking, lol, at which point he talks about what I talked about

 

It's too bad not all therapists get this optimal strategy down

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I see.

 

It'd also help if I was better at talking in general, especially under pressure and when anxious. It is hard to organize thoughts live. I feel to go into detail about anything and give coherent and clear information I have to type it over a course of time, but people don't seem to operate that way. Usually if someone asks you a question they want a response instantly, and if even 1.5-2 seconds pass without beginning to speak they will start to think you didn't hear them. I just can't do that it seems

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Maybe plan (write down, if you want) your topics and what you want to talk about ahead of time, then. Even I give at least a few minutes of thought into what I want to talk about before each appointment, and I never plan things.

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Yeah I usually try to think about the main things I want to bring up, though it can still be hard to go into detail about, so with my old therapist I use to just write letters and hand them to him sometimes. Since covid I can't really do that anymore, though maybe now I could be able to text this therapist. Unlike previous one this one seems to welcome calling them if I need them, and I am not sure but I think they use a cell phone. I can text my case manager, so if I can text my therapist anytime that would be potentially tremendously good

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Mine sometimes doesn't talk as much as I want her too, but really she knows me well, and that means that sometimes there's 5 minutes of talking that isn't really what I'm trying to talk about, and if I'm sweated out just a little bit I'll get to the iffier stuff that is the stuff people say "go see a therapist" about. 

 

Last time she talked most of the time, because I was asking her about hospice social work, and wouldn't you know it, she started out as a hospice social worker. And so she talked to me about it and it was really useful information. I probably won't bring it up much past this because lel doxxx but I am probably going to do hospice volunteering over the summer. That can mean a lot of things, from visiting someone at their house three times a week and doing their chores and buying their groceries, but for me it's probably going to be more like going to an actual hospital building/old folk's home and visiting several people on the same floor for an hourish each, over 4 hours or five hours, once or twice a week. 

 

Therapists can be a lot of things. I've had people say things to me like "When will you be done with therapy?" and the truth is I am "done" and maybe have always been "done", if you define "done" as not NEEDING a therapist's guiding hand to better yourself. I started seeing this one when I was about 14. I've known some people whose therapists give homework and whatnot and are a lot more actively involved. Mine is a lot more of a contact/support person. I really do feel like, if my family was the sort where I had aunties and uncles around, peripheral family members that acted like bonus parents or like a pastor both me and my mom had high rapport with, I wouldn't go to a therapist. But I don't, and so when shit is really bad between me and my mom, I bring her to my therapist to have an adult mediate. I needed three letters in support of my maturity to go to college at 15 and got them from my therapist (a social worker), my school social worker, and the woman I volunteered under. 

 

Sometimes I've switched from weekly to every other week, even just once a month at points. It just depends who's in my life and what's going on in my life. I only text mine about scheduling or if I'm bringing my mom, I think once or twice I've texted her to let her know "I really don't want to talk about X but I need to talk about X" beforehand, to assure that I talked about X and did not pretend it wasn't a thing. 

 

I don't feel like I have any specific mental illness diagnosis at this point, if that makes sense. Have I been formally diagnosed with things for largely insurance reasons? Of course. But in therapy it's never "How is your depression?", I don't have depression. I'm just sort of a flawed, bad person in many ways, but it's like... ball in my court now, if that makes sense. 

 

TLDR; I don't go to a therapist to "fix me", my therapist is a contact/support person at this point. It's also very useful to know a social worker who knows about, well, social work and how to become a social worker, when you yourself plan to become a social worker...

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I see.

 

I wanted to make a more in-depth reply but I am having trouble thinking

 

I guess so far this therapist has given homework. Whatever happens I hope it all works out in the end

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