Posted by FindingMyDesire on April 21, 2009, at 11:48:23
In reply to Re: Does posting here take away 'magic' of therapy? » FindingMyDesire, posted by Dinah on April 21, 2009, at 7:28:51
> It all depends on what Babble is to an individual I think. If Babble helps to contain feelings between sessions, I know my therapist would approve of that. If Babble encourages me to be open with him, I am positive my therapist would approve of that.
>I get the "containing" part for sure. Sometimes I am just trying to hold on to her and not start rejecting her in my head! Writing about it here helps so much.
> If I work things out here before bringing them to my therapist... Well, my therapist likes that too. Some might not. A lot of times bringing up something here before I bring it to therapy helps me sort out in my mind what my real issue is. Which oddly enough I don't always know. But in mentioning something then looking at my replies to responses, I can generally see a theme. And of course Babblers often can see things I don't, or have other ways of looking at my issue.
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> My therapist likes that. A therapist who likes to make interpretations or who has great insight might not like that as much. It's not my therapist's forte.
>It's funny. I don't think of my T as someone who makes a lot of interpretations. She definitely lets me drive. But I guess I do think she is the type to prefer me to wait to work things out with her and in front of her. Maybe it relates to my particular work (read: issues). HAHA! Which is true when I think about it. It's so, so hard to face her with my feelings. So I can get where it's probably good to face her with my feelings. Isn't therapy great for that? LOL. I'm thinking it's about keeping a balance - as most things. For me.
> I've never found it to take away the magic. Never. Growth takes the magic away some. But talking about therapy with others who understand never has.
>What?!?! Growth takes away the magic? I got to stop with the growing then. :-)
Thanks so much for your post.
FMD
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