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Originally Posted by Kacey2
OK I was going to post about my session in more detail but my week has just been super crazy. So I do not have another apt til next friday and that is when we go over the therapy plan and I get to ask my questions. Anyone have questions that they would love to ask their t if they could have "Meghan" do it? I will have to start brainstorming and probably write them down.
I will keep posting how my sessions as Meghan goes for anyone who is interested. Like I mentioned I won't have any new material until friday.
I apologize for not being able to respond to anyones threads lately. I am very overloaded and by the time I check pc at midnight I am too tired to reply. I just check in to see how everyone is doing.
Amanda Louise you had so many insightful things to say to me. Thank you. I will have to think more in depth about all of that. I do think that you are right on the money on how addicting it can be to pretend. It is like I don't want to be me and I want to just be Meghan now. Because Meghan is fresh and new and she doesn't have all the problems and flaws that I do. It will definately be hard to go back to the other old way of doing t. Let me think about the other stuff you wrote as well. Once again thank you.
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no rush, i think I posted more for food of thought for you, then for you to actually answer me.
I do know how addicting this can be, and understand how you feel. another food for thought who says you "have" to go completely back to the old way of doing things. if keeping your distance from the therapist enables you to be honest with your therapist and your self and make headway in therapy thats ok.
there are quite a few clients here that need the formal structured and distanced from the therapist therapy vs the friendly, relaxed, flexible atmosphere in therapy, for some people having structure, rules and guidelines for how each session is going to go and what topic is going to be discussed when and how and rules of engagement between them and the therapist is something that some people need.
you can still be yourself and at the same time keep the formal atmosphere /rules of engagement during therapy, with knowing ahead of time what you will be doing and how for each of your sessions.
if you feel this way is working with you talk with your treatment provider, explain how this exercise made you feel, the benefits you received from it, and keep those aspects of it that is what you and your therapist feels is healthy for you, incorporate those things into your future sessions.
