Therapy confusion
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| Fri, 12-18-2009 - 5:21am |
Good morning all. Just tossing this out for any comments and to try and see it in black and white to understand it myself.
OK, been in therapy over 7 years, have worked hard to find ways to manage my depression and anxiety. Have joined a church, committees with that church, tried hobbies, made friends, kept up exercising and other things to help me snap out of the blues.
So here last night once again lately I hear from my therapist how certain things with childhood I am stuck, and the only way to really recover is to sit and feel the sadness, really grieve, vs. doing all the coping or distracting skills I have learned to do.
It is scary to think of welcoming the dark places, the sadness.
And also confusing, and like I told her, no black/white rules or like when baking you set the timer and cookies are doine in 10 minutes, how do I know when enough blues is enough?
Therapist says I will know by how I start to feel better as I go through this circle thing she showed me, probably another Gestault thing.
I need to think and pray on this one. And I see her again on tuesday as no way was I seeing her on Christmas Eve, although she is working that day. So I will ask ?? and get more direction but just rather ironic that all my hard work to learn to cope, maybe my down fall that I am not continuing to get better.
thanks for listening, close to getting ready for work for me. Josie.

Josie, I don't agree with your therapist.
Josie,
I agree with Deb!
Thanks Deb for taking the time to answer.
I need to pray and think more on all of it but I do know that until I realized I was as scared of my boss as I was of my father years ago, I couldn't function well at work at all.
Hi Heidi and thanks for reaching out too.
My past is effecting my present in my reactions to my Mom that is still alive and my 2 sisters.