Posted by lovelorn on December 13, 2007, at 18:22:03
At one point during my therapy session yesterday, my T asked what does healing mean to me. My mind went blank for a few moments. Healing. I finally muttered out that it is if a bone breaks and then eventually gets healed or if you have some kind of sickness then take a medicine and get better. We talked some and then she asked then you see it as a curing. And in my mind I guess yes I kind of equated healing with curing. Then after some more discussion, I came up with the visual and example then of an open cut (a big one) that eventually closes up and there is a scar.
She pressed a little more and asked what would it feel like or mean that something is healed. I answered back that there would be no more pain. And this time, yes, I was thinking of emotional pain. I told her I would think on that some more, on what healing means to me. I'm still thinking about it.
I thought I would just share here. So many are going through their own pain in therapy and life in general and I thought I would put it out there for each to think about what healing means to yourself and what curing means to yourself in what you may be going through and to maybe also examine what has healed or is on its way to healing and what has yet to heal. Actually that last part I am going to be thinking for myself.
So, just a thought: healing or cure. There is a difference. In emotional terms, I am still figuring it out.
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