Posted by fallsfall on March 24, 2004, at 8:21:04
Coral talked in a previous thread about wishing that her therapist would leave a trail of breadcrumbs to help her find her way through her emotions (http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20040321/msgs/327370.html). I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds emotions mystifying.
I am bright and have a logical (mathematical) mind. But I feel like I'm in a foreign country when he starts talking about emotions. I have learned some stuff in the last 9 years, but I still feel like I just don't get it.
This is really frustrating when you are USED to "getting it". Usually in the past if I bumped in to an area that I didn't "get", I could manage through the particular course or situation, and then manage to avoid such things in the future. But I am severely depressed. I HAVE to "succeed" in therapy in order to function. I feel trapped in a world that seems incredibly foreign - and *un-learnable*. Everyone is talking in a language I don't understand about things that have no relevance (no reality) for me. Yet somehow I have to succeed here. Help!
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