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I feel really good about being here at Recovery Ways. There are things that I don't like, but overall I feel like it's been a really good thing for me. We've been focusing on trauma work a lot, every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we have a process group where we can dive deep into traumas. We also have classes that are interactive like CPT that is a trauma based therapy. We meet with a therapist once a week and I really love my therapist. She's amazing. I had a therapy session yesterday and we dove deep into one of my traumas, and we realized that a lot of the same features that showed up in this trauma showed up in a previous trauma. We also noticed that I put up a barrier between my emotions while telling the story of what happened. I was in my emotions for a second. Then went back to being detached from it.
We also meet with a psychiatrist once a week, I like him too. He introduced me to the idea of taking a shot once a month instead of meds every day, to help me be more med compliant. We're shifting my meds so that it may be possible, this week will be especially telling if it works or not. They ordered the shot so that should come in the next couple days.
While doing trauma work I realized a previous trauma is affecting me more than I let on, so I am doing a lot of work surrounding that.
On Wednesday I may potentially move to PHP (partial hospitalization program) which will mean I have more freedom in the evenings and will have access to my phone etc. So I am excited about that. My doctor and therapist just have to sign off on it, so I hope they do. It'll still have a ton of groups like we do here, it's basically the same thing with a little more freedom. And I will have the same therapist and psychiatrist over there as I do here.
So overall, things are going well.
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