Posted by Dinah on March 8, 2009, at 9:50:02
In reply to ACOA = adult child of alcoholic(s) (trigger?) » obsidian, posted by lucie lu on March 8, 2009, at 7:25:01
> With this T I've been able to learn some reality testing. And I find that although I really am very good in sensing very subtle things from other people, because of my childhood training, I am not always very accurate in interpreting what it is I'm picking up, ironically because of that same childhood training.
> And I do tend to go a bit nuts when what I sense and what is said don't match. But obviously sometimes I am wrong, I add 1 plus 1 and get 57, and I was wrong in a lot of respects about what I assumed my T was feeling in this case. (Although I'll bet I was right about a lot of it too. That was the 1+1 part, I was just wrong about the 57, lol)
I can so empathize with what you and sid are saying. I have learned that too. That what I call my semipsychic abilities can be very accurate, but my ability to interpret them is less well developed. The more companionate stage of therapy where I have found myself is perfect for sharing my perceptions about him, and having him conversationally and nondefensively, and most important - honestly, discuss my perceptions.
And the benefit of that is not only to improve my ability to interpret, or to realize and accept that even if I'm really semipsychic, that doesn't mean my perceptions of a situation are correct, but also to somehow define the boundaries of where I end and others begin. The boundary part is where I get the sort of feeling that you described in an earlier post. That things are changing, and I am changing.
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