Posted by messadivoce on November 2, 2005, at 1:07:00
In reply to Does anyone?, posted by Gee on November 1, 2005, at 23:42:09
Absolutely, without a doubt, 100%.
The 8 months of therapy I had with my T were 8 months of intense hell (and sometimes heaven, but mostly not). You are probably digging up memories that you've kept buried to protect yourself. If you lived with that stuff on your shirt sleeves, there's no way you could function well, right? But when it comes out it always hurts. But the difference is, now you will deal with that hurt. And maybe, one day, it won't hurt you anymore. Because when we bury painful things, they are still there, just coming out in different ways.
I once had a session with my T on a Thursday in which I revealed some very hard and painful memories that I had never told anyone. I felt absolutely horrid the entire weekend. When I came to my next session on Monday, I told my T and she was not surprised. She said she'd expected it. It's normal.
The important thing is that you keep talking to your T about how you feel, even if you just want to curl up into a ball and not say anything at all.
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