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I'm not entirely sure. One was a fancy lady with a union square office who was recommended to me by a friend. She was nice but tried directing everything toward

I'm not entirely sure. One was a fancy lady with a union square office who was recommended to me by a friend. She was nice but tried directing everything towards my family which I thought was distracting. The best therapist I ever had was an older man from upstate NY who practiced zen buddhism. He was technically a psychiatrist I suppose but we had incredible talk sessions and he helped me manage it during the worst episodes (first years of college), because we mostly just talked about poetry or writing or anything but normal therapy territory. I'm not sure where he is at now but I would like to find something similar to that. But to be honest I'm pretty burnt out on therapy and my mood swings make it hard to build a consistent rapport with most practitioners. Also therapy is INCREDIBLY expensive and many don't take insurance. It feels screwy.

fsloth 10y ago
The list of various styles of psychotherapy is vast and they differ greatly in their approach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotherapies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotherapies Cognitive behavioural therapy is one of the well known ones and to my understanding tends to focus on concrete patterns of behaviour rather than digging out some deficit in parental relationships https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy Totally amateur here but unfortunately a bit familiar of depression. What you described sounds like a familiar pattern and CBT was helpfull in that.