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Old Aug 30, 2011, 03:49 PM
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I'm saying that the anxiety is caused from years of stuffing those feelings.... I'm not talking about trying to contain the anxious feeling. I'm talking about stuffing all sorts of feelings throughout the years.
OK, I get what you are saying now. Thanks for explaining, Sannah. Through therapy, I've gotten rid of a lot of my stuffed feelings--what were at one time a mountain. (It feels great, fantastic, amazing!) But I still fidget in session--I think my fidgeting (at least now) must be more of a garden variety anxiety signal rather than due to a backlog of stuffed feelings. My fidgeting is also a way of saying to my T, I trust you, I want you to know what I am feeling in the moment, and I am being honest with you. Kind of cool how fidgeting can have all these different meanings.
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Thanks for this!
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