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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP and I don’t have good advice for anyone whose ill relative is seeing just a counselor or therapist. You really need a psychiatrist focused on medication and action-oriented therapy, and treatments like DBT or CBT. I say this as someone who has watched DH get progressively worse while hiding behind a therapist who does nothing but validate his feelings and take his out of pocket payments.[/quote]

Agree. My sister was seeing a therapist for a while but was not telling the therapist the truth about herself (not saying anything about her delusions) so it was a big waste of money. So the whole thing was “let’s talk about the feelings that the delusions caused without actually discussing where those feelings came from, ie the delusions.”[/quote]
I posted earlier about my sister showing delusional thinking around age 40. At one point my parents let her live with them if she went to an outpatient treatment. One day a staff member came out with her to talk to my mom and mentioned how she had been "severely abused" in her childhood. This was not true. I know because I was there. It was delusional thinking. She quit, left their house and ended up homeless for a while because she refused to see or talk to anyone which had become a pattern. My parents ended up supporting her for the rest of her life because eventually she came back and asked for help, but she never wanted psychiatric help and made a big deal about how she didn't take medications. She was unable to survive without their help and they were kind enough to do that. [/quote]

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