Posted by DAisym on February 23, 2009, at 17:58:16
In reply to What IS it with me?, posted by Dinah on February 23, 2009, at 8:52:54
I have long said that therapy is addictive.
Not in a "bad" way but in the sense that we have a chemical response to the soothing energy we get from our therapist. Or, in some cases, we get to discharge pent up anxiety and emotion and need that release. No matter what happens when you go, you need to go.
Especially when you know you can. Kind of like having chocolate cake in the kitchen. It would be OK to skip dessert if you didn't have it, but knowing it is there means we eat it.
I'm struggling again with the whole "open up and close down" spiral. It seems harder to get open and harder to get closed. So I resist opening. But I, like you, get caught on that fence when I begin to waffle about going. I've come to know, most of the time, that I'm choosing it for myself so it is OK that I "cave" and go.
I hope it worked out OK.
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