Posted by ClearSkies on April 17, 2008, at 14:26:50
In reply to Trying to bail on therapy cuz the truth is....., posted by rskontos on April 17, 2008, at 13:40:59
So your T has gotten very close to a tender place and it hurts. I think I would be fighting it too! If you can, be gentle with yourself right now and maybe try not to make a decision even about therapy. If it is tough then keep telling him that it is tough (sometimes as good as our Ts are they don't always see the hurt we are feeling). Maybe it's not a time to push ahead but a time to rest with this thing and consider where you are with it, and why it hurts so much. Also why it feels like you have been here before - my T talks about how we revisit our traumas and that is how we finally begin to heal from them, by desensitizing from them by experiencing them again and again - and, try as we might to shield ourselves from feeling this in our lives, it just keeps throwing that stuff at us.
I wouldn't say we have to embrace these difficult feelings - but they are there for a reason, because we are meant to revisit them. So this is happening for a reason, RSK. It's very important that you be gentle with yourself right now.
((((RSK))))
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