Anyone else who needs help for mental illness find that psychological therapy helps not at all, and in fact makes things worse? I've found over the last couple of years that going to see my psychiatrist and/or my therapist to talk about my various traumas and anxieties has become an increasingly-rough ordeal. Used to, during the first year or so of my transition, it wasn't so bad. In fact, I rather needed that weekly outlet of being able to release emotions I had had pent-up after all of those years. But now, the whole experience just seems to upset me further and guarantee an even more emotionally-vacillating week than otherwise.
Since the arrival of the new year, when I finally got news that my application for disability was rejected, I've quit going to both my therapist and psychiatrist, and I seem to be feeling worlds better and more stable, day-to-day. (I now have my GP prescribe my SSRI's.) Is this perhaps because my brain is so active and my past traumas are so frequently on my mind anyway (including nightmares regularly), so dredging them up to the surface during therapy is just blasting the wounds too much? Dunno.
Can anyone else relate?
Therapy shouldn't be making you feel worse, unless they're making you confront those traumas without actually coping with them properly. Did you try any other therapists/psychiatrists? Or was it just all of them starting to make you feel this way?
If you're feeling better right now, and you're still taking your medication then you're probably fine to just keep doing what you're doing. If you ever start to feel like its taking a toll on you again, there will still be professionals there to help you.