Posted by muffled on November 4, 2008, at 12:16:36
In reply to A bit disappointed, posted by Dinah on November 4, 2008, at 7:49:28
"Still, the funny thing is he really does help me. I had walked into the session totally exhausted to the point of feeling physically odd, removed, having all sorts of temporal lobe experiences (partly because I'd forgotten to take my meds for several days since I take them at bedtime and I hadn't actually gone to bed for several days). When I walked out I felt grounded, more like myself, less dissociated, and more able to finish my workday productively. The temporal lobe stuff was still there, but it bothered me less. "
"Sigh. Why does he have such powerful effect on me for good? If I were someone who believed in those things, I'd think he emitted some sort of calming brain waves that my brain waves picked up, and that calmed them by contact. "
Dinah, so sorry you struggling. Hope you can be careful with your physical health.
My old T helped me. I still miss that relationship. She just seemed to keep me more grounded. made me feel more 'safe' in some indefinable way.
I think your T has an effect on you for good in much the way my old T did. Its the relationship. Its not magic, its not necc all a special chemistry.
It can be had with a diff T too.
I know you are attached to your T, of course you are, there is a very long term connection and understanding btwn you.
But...uh oh...
you don't gotta read my drivel,
cuz drivel it is...
but
if you still reading,
well then I wondered if you might want to try to transiotion to another T and see if you could do some diff weork, with a diff approach?
I hear that the realtionship with your T helps HUGELY with your stability, but does he help you move ahead? Do you WANT to move ahead?
Just so often I hear your frustration with him, that he seems unable to push things, to engage, to try new things.
So sometimes it seems like you want to move ahead with some stuff....and sometimes not.
I gotta tell you, it was a hard hard decsion for me to change T's, but I feel I am learning more with this new T. She lacks some things that my old T had, but she has other things that are more important to me right now.
And really, my realtionship w/old T was just so not really T like, it was more 'visiting' for me.
So I dunno.
Maybe you can keep old T for safety, but trey new T for some diff therapy?
Or mebbe I just blowin wind out my *ss :-0 ;-)
Dinah, you sure are a neat person.
Take care,
Muffled
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