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I'm a 27 year old female that has been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. Before being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, I was diagnosed with Depression and was prescribed an antidepressant and attempted therapy. Recently, I have attempted therapy again to no avail. I find it very difficult to develop a trusting relationship with a therapist and feel like it's a waste of time and money to idly talk about my day-to-day life. It feels like there is no structure and can't talk about the things that really bother me about my past and such for fear of being judged. How do I develop a trusting relationship with a therapist? How do I benefit best from therapy?
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In my experience, I have found many diagnosed with bipolar when in reality that was not accurate. It seems to be a more modern go to diagnosis and that scare the hell out of me based on potential mis-treatments of patients. From a personal perspective, I have had zero luck with therapy. I am suffering from depression, OCD, and wicked panic disorder. Currently on Zoloft which has been the only thing to help...much more than any therapist I've ever had. However, I do believe that there is a good therapist for everyone. I know my reply hasn't helped too much, but I am praying that you are okay. Always here if you need to chat.
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First, what kind of Bipolar were you diagnosed with and by whom?  True bipolar as far as I know can only be treated with medication.  Therapy can help make it easier, but there is no cure.  If you've been diagnosed with Bipolar 2 or 3 or one of the many other phony bipolar disorders, don't worry about it -- it just means you're depressed and manifest it in a way that fits a certain insurance company code or pharmaceutical company's FDA approval.  In that case, therapy can help you get over it, but you have to understand first that therapy usually fails but that eventually if you keep trying you find the therapist that suits you.  If that happens with the first one you find, that's great, but when it doesn't it doesn't mean therapy won't ever help, it just means you haven't found the right one yet.  As for being judged, therapists don't really do that, nor do they tell you how to live you life and solve all your problems for you.  It would be nice if that were the case, but it isn't.  What the attempt to do is get you to see how your thinking style is causing you pain and try to change that.  Each therapist is a therapy school unto themselves, so they differ greatly in how they try to accomplish this, and some are way better at it than others and some work a lot harder for you than others.  Some learn a lot more tools than others.  So keep trying.
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