Posted by daisym on September 3, 2004, at 0:39:08
In reply to Re: Dealing w/ pain emotion after T session, posted by gardenergirl on September 3, 2004, at 0:17:17
I really feel for you. My first ever post here was about getting emotionally whammied AFTER the session instead of during it, where help was available. For me, it was a process of trusting my therapist enough to have an emotional response in front of him.
I still find that I get hit with painful waves of emotions after sessions. Some of it is missing my therapist's reassuring presence, and a lot of it is opening old wounds. We need to clean out these wounds but somehow therapy feels like ripping off the scabs and being send back into the world hurting and bleeding. This is why you need a support network (babble is great for this) to help put on compresses and bandages and apply pain killers.
My therapist believes in lots of check ins if I'm having a hard time. Not all do. He also encourages me to write out my feelings in a free flow kind of fashion. Journaling has been really a big help to me. Other people use all kinds of distraction...movies, ice cream and swinging. Do what feels good.
And post as much as you need to. It really does help.
Hugs!
Daisy
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