Thank you for such an honest and revealing post. Therapy is such a push-pull exercise. Two people who used to be strangers are now, together, exploring the innermost thoughts and feelings of one of them. It pushes all kinds of buttons for us, I think. It pushes buttons that come from how we react to authority. It pushes buttons regarding how approval-seeking we are. Sometimes, I think the therapists get places before we are ready to go there ourselves, and they pull us along; other times, they're a little off-track but we don't reel them in. I've been in the same situation and I have an inkling of how you feel.
Plus, anxiety is something we (a) don't particularly like to relive and is (b) situation based. I used to be very, very anxious about flying, and sometimes still am. But could I correctly reproduce that anxiety in a therapist's office? No. I could intellectually reproduce it, but I couldn't actually make myself afraid.
It's so interesting. Now, here's my question: Will you tell her that you gave in somewhat to please her?
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Zelda,
Thank you for such an honest and revealing post. Therapy is such a push-pull exercise. Two people who used to be strangers are now, together, exploring the innermost thoughts and feelings of one of them. It pushes all kinds of buttons for us, I think. It pushes buttons that come from how we react to authority. It pushes buttons regarding how approval-seeking we are. Sometimes, I think the therapists get places before we are ready to go there ourselves, and they pull us along; other times, they're a little off-track but we don't reel them in. I've been in the same situation and I have an inkling of how you feel.
Plus, anxiety is something we (a) don't particularly like to relive and is (b) situation based. I used to be very, very anxious about flying, and sometimes still am. But could I correctly reproduce that anxiety in a therapist's office? No. I could intellectually reproduce it, but I couldn't actually make myself afraid.
It's so interesting. Now, here's my question: Will you tell her that you gave in somewhat to please her?
April 8, 2010 - 9:28amThis Comment
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