Treehouse, it's OK to be sad. It
is huge and sad. It just is.
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Originally Posted by treehouse
It's like my subconscious is all trained to be ready for therapy every 3 or 4 days now, and I need to retrain it to wait a week.
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Treehouse, that is
exactly how I have felt when going from seeing T every week to every other. I had to retrain my unconscious to not be all ready after just a week. It took a while, but now my unconscious is on a two week schedule, and it is fine for me.
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T called and now I think I feel sadder. I guess because I *know* it's safe to feel whatever I'm feeling with him, and after all of the hard work to feel safe feeling my feelings, I can't turn it off.
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Again, this is
exactly how it has been for me too. It's like I'm conditioned to feel by the presence of T. I really worried about this a couple of years ago when T took on another professional role in my life that necessitated my seeing him outside of session. I was really worried I wouldn't be able to function in his presence outside of therapy because I would automatically be feeling everything (which at that time mean deep sadness and lots of tears). We practiced a couple of times and it turned out that outside of his office, I could be OK with him.
Once when everything was too huge for me to handle, T told me to go home and cry and sleep. They really do help.
