Session Four - 3rd Oct. 2013

The session today was a fast one. Since last week, I told mum and dad about everything and on Friday, I went to the GP and was given Citalopram 20mg for depression and Half Beta-prograne 80mg for anxiety. They're really helping, I feel so much less stressed and we had half the session we normally do because I feel a lot better relatively. I hit the wall again though because they make me drowsy so I don't remember a lot of the middle bit.

 

We started off by talking about how it went when I told mum and dad about the sessions and how it went when I went to see the GP. I said about how difficult it was to actually say it for the first time and how they reacted. I told her that mum and dad have been very supportive and mum said she'd cut off contact with his parents if she wanted me to. Mum said that she feels she's let me down and she didn't know what to do in the situation, which is completely understandable because I wouldn't have a clue what to di in her position.

 

I mentioned the family history of depression, the fact that mum and all her siblings have been on them at some point in their lives and how my aunt and uncle are on different doses of the same antidepressant that I'm on. She said that she could see the difference in me this week compared to the last session, and kept congratulating me because of how difficult it all is. She asked about being referred to another counsellor, the GP said that I could if I wanted but it could take up to three weeks to actually get it through and as long as I keep going to the sessions at college then I should be okay :)

 

We talked about what we could do next week. She said that she isn't trained in CBT but we could do some mild stuff for the anxiety, like the ABC Model. That's where we look at an "Activating Event", or a trigger, look at the "Beliefs" around it, like what our thoughts are, and finally the "Consequences", the actions and emotions of this. So it looks like we're going to be looking at more ways of dealing things rather than just talking about the past.