Posted by twinleaf on April 24, 2008, at 20:10:32
In reply to Re: somebody engage me...**S. TRIGGER** » B2chica, posted by ClearSkies on April 24, 2008, at 16:53:48
Like many others here, I know what it is like to feel the way you do now. Earlier this year, I went through something which sounds very similiar- I just started to feel extremely hopeless, and tired of trying so hard to fight a battle which it seemed I could never win. I have to credit my therapist with helping me through it; he never exhorted me, never told me how much I had to live for, how much I had accomplished in the past, and could, again, in the future, etc. Instead, he listened so carefully, and kept acknowledging to me that he knew how much pain I was in- just that, nothing more. After a while, I began to feel that, although I still felt awful, I wasn't alone; he was there with me. It made such a difference. Perhaps if I hadn't taken such an emotional nosedive, I wouldn't have discovered that he was really and truly THERE. I wonder if that is what we all want and need- so simple and basic, yet so hard to find.. I hope you have a therapist who understands you and cares about you in that way, too. (I may not have read all the posts about that).
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