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Old Jun 07, 2009, 09:26 PM
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I had my session today, I got there and I could not talk. I could not think, nothing was in my mind, I had nothing to say. There was plenty to talk about but I was at a total loss. I feel like I am just wasting everyones time. I give up, I no idea what else to do. I have really tried, I really have.

In the past I tried writing but that did not seem to work out for me. I need to jump start my brain, otherwise I am ready to walk a way from this. I no idea what else to do. It is very frustrating.

Xtree
Hi Xtree,
I know the feeling! Because of this I started to write my questions/issues down to discuss w/ my T and that kind of helped. But some of the items that I was going to talk about sounded lame by the time I got to my appt. a week or so later, that I ended up not mentioning those things at all. That left me leaving my session confused, incomplete and disappointed in myself! In my last session I made a copy for my T. of all the items I wanted to discuss and it worked out great. I did most of the talking and when I became quiet, he used my list and prompted me on the next item. This was the most active session since I have been seeing my T (2 months ago). I guess he felt it worked too because he told me to continue bringing my lists in from now on if I needed to. Maybe this would work for you. I also find that if I don't want to bring up an issue, I will talk about the weather or whatever's going on outside the window (thank God for windows!) and this would help bring up something to talk about. He would even mention something personal, like about his wife doing the same thing or whatever innocuous thing we were talking about (books, vacations etc.) and this would lead to some issue I wanted to discuss also. I guess my T. tries to give me cues to get me to talk. So Xtree, I hope your next session goes better---please don't give up! Take care...