Posted by Penny on December 18, 2003, at 13:39:28
In reply to Re: Feeling during therapy » Penny, posted by Karen_kay on December 18, 2003, at 13:18:52
> Ask yourself why you don't want to dive into the issues.....
I guess I did so much diving into the issues with my first therapist - told her all about my parents' and their drug use, my dad's verbal abuse, and then my grandfather committed suicide while I was seeing her, so that brought up a lot as well. Things I couldn't avoid as they were happening right then. But I've been through the parent stuff so many times...and I've told my current T about them, and we've talked about my grandfather and the situation surrounding his death, and we talk about my family in general, but...I don't know.
We had some fodder for sessions when I was seeing this guy a few times earlier this year - I could talk about my fears and such and she is much better about those things and I am more comfortable talking about sexual things with her than with my former T - but then the thing with the guy ended and there's been no one else since and I haven't wanted to discuss it, frankly. I'm sure that a large part of it is opening up those wounds that I'd rather not deal with! It's not that I am afraid to say any of those things to her, I'm not, I just don't want to talk about it period. But if she pushed me a bit more, I wouldn't be opposed to talking about those things. Left to my own choices about discussion topics however...I don't know at what point I will bring up serious stuff again...
Sigh. I have therapy this evening and I think I will tell her about this thread. We'll see.
P
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