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Date Posted: 13:10:49 05/07/07 Mon
Author: Mikki
Author Host/IP: 24-180-81-45.dhcp.bycy.mi.charter.com / 24.180.81.45
Subject: Tell me if this makes sense to you.......

I have been enrolled in a group therapy class at UM. My doctor insisted that I join this group, so I said ok. The group is a DBT group (diadatical behavior therapy). It is a group that I have never ever seen before. We don't get to talk about our issues, if we do, we get a bell rung by our heads. We are supposed to listen to the information presented, and then take that information to our indididual therapists for processing. So we sit there and listen to the woman drone on about coping skills, see movies, and basically pay $150 dollars a session to have this wonderful therapy. Here are some of the exercises we have done.

1. Put purell on our hands, and we had to feel all that we felt rubbing it into our hands. Was it cold, was it smooth, what did it remind you of......stupid.

2. We had to look around the room and name all the things in the room that were blue. Then do it again with the color white.

3. Look at our hands......inspect our fingertips and wonder if anyone else has our same finger print. Look at the lines on our hands....look at the skin.....stupid.

What the hell am I into here? When anyone tries to bring up an issue......a bell gets rung. Kinda like Pavlovs dogs. The first session I felt better than all that, I was pissed off that I drove 90 miles for this.

The second session I was kind of put in my place. There was a man who was a cutter, and spent 2 years in a psych facility. One girl just cries through the entire group. We have a manic bipolar who won't shut up, a girl who sees things, and me who hears things. One man got up in group and called us all losers.....we would never get better like he had. He walked out of the group in a huff. Not a word was said from the therapist. We went on counting colors.

God this is awful, and although in my heart I know I am higher functioning then this, I realized I am one of them.
My mom at any given moment will tell me I am not high functioning and to learn to live with it.

My doctor has me locked in this hell group for 4 months. I can't stand it. I think I would be better served in a bipolar group. Am I high functioning, or am I just doomed to look at my hands and "feel the feeling of them".

Someone please tell me that I dont' need this shit. Please?

Love, Mikki

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