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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 659985" data-attributes="member: 1550">Therapy was so different for me.I didn't do psychoanalysis. I thought it was garbage, frankly. I experienced no transference with anyone I saw. I mostly dabbled in cognitive behavioral therapy type psychologists. I wouldn't get better from sitting and pouring my heart out...I want coping skills. Dialectal Behavioral Therapy is like that too, only more advanced. Mentalization sounds interesting to and I'm willing to do EMDR to get rid of the traumitic thoughts.I think Freud was wrong. 100% wrong. But at least he humanized people who suffer things like depression and bipolar and even schizophrenia.I have shared a lot with a few female therapists through the years, but they are also coping-skill oriented, although they are very good at listening and validating and bringing up good points too. I saw one therapist for ten years, until she retired.I am not going to, nor have I ever, laid on a couch to free associate.I want to learn from the psychologist...I want to be taught skills to help me in my daily life and to help me deal with triggers that come up through the years, which happened with Thing 2. I am hoping EMDR will take the traumatic thoughts away, which it is supposed to do. You still acknowledge what happened, but you are no longer horrified by them as if they happened today; now. That is what I hate. The thought of my sister gives me the creeps NOW as if she is hanging up on me for the first time NOW or the cops are at my door NOW because I tried to find out why she was angry. I also have a severe traumatic fear of getting a new job due to my horrible experiences with being fired so much. It is a fact that I have learning problems and neurological differences and my bosses were not sympathetic that it took me a long time to connect t he dots. In fact the job trauma may be worse than Sister's rejection. I'm sure mother's words and rejection are my biggest trauma.But I don't like Freud based therapy. I never did. What we are doing here, I never really did with a therapist. We worked on moving on in a better direction. That doesn't mean the shrinks didn't know my history. I told them. They demanded it. It's just that I liked focusing on helping myself more.</blockquote>

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