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Re: Finger crossing didn't work. :(((( (long)

Posted by Dinah on November 4, 2003, at 11:38:42

In reply to Re: Finger crossing didn't work. :(((( (long) » Dinah, posted by DaisyM on November 4, 2003, at 11:06:39

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> No matter how many times, or how long you've been in therapy it is always somewhat traumatic to reveal yourself to someone new.

Yes, it is. I had actually gone over several scenarios of questions and answers and very few of the questions were what I had anticipated. That left me grasping for answers and getting more and more overwhelmed. I hadn't even anticipated the question about what I like to read. Since I didn't want to answer "psych books" I was left struggling to remember what else I read. Plus with him getting closer and pushing the eye contact, my back was trying to make it's way out of the back of the chair, and I was wriggling uncomfortably.

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> So take a breath, let the bad stuff go and focus on the actual biofeedback techniques. THAT is what you are going for -- it is OK to disagree with this therapist, but you want to learn from him about one specific thing.

That's what I'm trying to concentrate on, because I really really do want to learn the techniques. Although he said at the end something about (and I was already flooded by then so I'm not sure) biofeedback being like a scale that measured our progress, not the means of progress. Which left me wondering why I was bothering...
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> When my son started Biofeedback, he really liked the therapist who was doing it, and at the time, he was struggling with his own therapist because he was being pushed about underlying issues. He became very confused about who to tell what to and what to work on. We sorted it out for him like this: take what Biofeedback has to offer you -- calming the anxiety, getting rid of stomach aches, etc. and ignore everything else. Bring your symptoms to the sessions, not your issues. Save those for your therapist. That way he could focus on getting help around controlling his anxiety in different situations, which allowed him to not be so guarded during the biofeedback sessions.
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Yes, that sounds like a reasonable and sane-inducing solution. And it's what my therapist was suggesting and counting on. I wasn't expecting that this guy would have a different agenda. I'm just hoping I can hold the boundaries in the face of a really intense personality. But I do have a better understanding now of my therapists no two therapists rule.

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> Hang in there. The second session should be better. Did you ask about the skin/electrical feeling?
> -D

Oh, I forgot completely. I was really in flight mode by the end of the session. He did say that my baseline skin conductivity level was twice the normal range.

Thanks for your encouragement, Daisy. The whole thing does seem rather daunting at the moment. I've already fallen behind on his voluminous homework.

Although for the homework question "What was the most distressing thing to happen to you today" yesterday, I answered the biofeedback session.

 

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