Experience with Therapy

hey @sparkywantsnoPMO what do you mean by apps? apps that actually work as a therapist? or something in combination/tracking function to work with the treatment?

if you don't mind sharing app names, etc I'd be extremely grateful!

cheers

 

For me EMDR works best.

 

Have you considered Art Therapy?

 

@BlackenGuru : I found the word therapy is quite a fancy word here. Also for me those therapies are over catagorized cuz it sounds like they are all CBT based. They didn't work well with my depression. The concept of the therapy is "use rational mind to change/experience/aware emotions". Sometimes it works, most of the time it don't, at least in my case.

Hypnotherapy is the one i'm interested in. But credible? I guess not. It's like guided meditation with a real person. It's good.

 

I'm no expert and got my info from the net. Last months I have read hundreds of logs (mostly of SO), seen hours and hours of video on different subjects relating to SA and personality disorders. This my view, based on what I can relate to. I believe everyone and every 'case' is different and somehow also the same. There is no black and white so its not all or nothing. I don't have all the technical therms and stuff, so I explain it how I

As I see it somewhere between birth and where we are now we lost connection with (part of) our self's. This is likely happen in our early stage of life. This resulted in a different view of the world en our self's. To 'survive' we developed coping mechanisms to handle emotions. Somewhere PMO has been used as a coping mechanism. Maybe for other people it would be drugs, alcohol, eating, hobby, gaming (!!!) etc. So part of us just developed 'normal' and a other part of us is (strongly) under developed.
To get back to a healthy life the under developed part need to be acknowledged and the reason for the disconnection with our self's, need to be found and repaired. Than we can start with 'learning' to handle the emotional part of life, and everything that is connected.
As I see it this is where the above therapy styles come in. Maybe schema therapy can help with above?
Ive read somewhere that CBS (or alike), can handle the outside part, but not the healing part. This means you get trained to act a certain way, (another coping mechanism???), but in the end it doesn't result in your own happiness.
This correlates with the difficulty to heal for example narcissism. CBT is not only useless (the self is still separated and suppressed), mostly they learn to hide it better and present a better self to the outside world. Internal they are still the same.

I would highly suggest to watch the first five links of YT results on 'intimacy disorder'. This explained so much for myself, and I think it relate to many others here.

Good luck.

 

My therapist used a mixture of disciplines.