Posted by lucie lu on March 8, 2009, at 11:28:21
In reply to Re: Anger, individuation, and taking risks (long) » lucie lu, posted by workinprogress on March 7, 2009, at 6:00:22
> Good luck to you and keep us posted on this phase. I find it so interesting the patterns in therapy- I too can sort of tell a new phase is coming. It's different from yours, I feel trepidation. Big growth is big pain usually, growing pains I think... and I get little signals (not sure I know exactly what they are now, but I know them) that it's time to "hold on to my hat" because this is gonna be tough.
>WIP, I usually don't recognize growing pains as such when they happen. It's usually only evident in hindsight. I think that maybe my depression last fall was at least partly growing pains, although it didn't feel at all that way then. It was painful and I felt very stuck and regressed. But as my T would say, some regression is "in the service of the ego" meaning that it accomplishes some useful purpose. Maybe that's what you experience too.
~L.
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