Posted by Dinah on May 29, 2008, at 11:41:24
In reply to Same old thing, posted by Daisym on May 29, 2008, at 0:16:48
lol. He's funny. :)
Every once in a while my therapist says with exasperation, "We've gone over this already!" Apparently he isn't quite as wonderful as yours. I always remind him that sometimes it's the thousandth repetition that finally sinks in. That's been true in the past, and will likely be true in the future. Eventually I do come to know something as true. But it takes a while for me.
I'm glad you don't have to explain that you your therapist. He seems to understand.
I suppose therapy isn't a circle, or we'd keep going round and round without getting anywhere. But maybe it's a tightly wound spiral sometimes. We keep circling and touching on the same topics. Because that's the way life is, isn't it?
I tend to have enthusiasms, and when my enthusiasm is over I think about getting rid of all the stuff associated with the enthusiasm. But I decide against it because I know that sooner or later I'm likely to enthuse on the same topic again. It tends to cycle again and again. When people in my life let me down, they rarely manage to do it in new and different ways. They let me down in the same way over and over again. And my issues in therapy are rarely new either. They too recycle. I suppose if they didn't, they wouldn't have been such deeply entrenched and hard to shake issues that require therapy.
I don't know if I'm making sense. I'm a bit groggy.
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