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Table 2 Common categories of perceived helpful and hindering factors for remission based on a 9-year follow-up examination of 38 patients with panic disorder and dysthymia

From: Helpful and hindering factors for remission in dysthymia and panic disorder at 9-year follow-up: A mixed methods study

Helpful factors

Hindering factors

Successful negotiations

Difficult negotiations

- Fought for my request

- Misunderstood and rejected

- Chose my therapist

- The patient is the underdog

- Found financing for psychotherapy

- Problems financing psychotherapy

- Enough time

- Too little time

Antidepressant medications

Medication problems

- Stabilizes

- Fear

 

- Side effects

 

- No problem solving

Allowed to express myself

Therapist too non-directive

Confidence in the therapist

Lack of confidence in the therapist

Understanding myself and mechanisms

Lack of understanding

Reasoning with myself

Reasoning with myself is not enough

Important relations to others*

Unresolved relational problems*

  1. * = Non-treatment factors