Posted by Wittgenstein on December 5, 2007, at 14:14:17
In reply to Re: when my analyst begins talking..., posted by rskontos on December 5, 2007, at 8:52:50
Rskontos,
I have been reading the threads (including your posts) despite not posting for a while. I think it's hard to compare progress in therapy. We are all working through different things, some requiring more time than others.
I imagine processing your last session has required tremendous courage and strength on your part, and hopefully it will be a step in bringing you to a safer place in the long term. From my experience, therapy seems to go round in circles - hard hard times and then relief and some good times, with some nice warm moments scattered in between. The good times give such healing but it only works like that having gone through the bad/difficult stuff first.
A few sessions ago I shared with my T about the worst thing I'd ever done, the moment in my past that brings me the greatest shame and self-disgust (something that happened in the span of a few seconds when I was a teenager). After the session I was terrified what he might think, anxious, regretting - what next? But since then we worked on it and now I feel a level of acceptance greater than I could have felt had this been kept in the dark, as well as being more rational about it. I know this can't really be compared to your last session but I hope what your last session does do is bring something positive for you in the long-term.
Take care,
Witti
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