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eskielover · Oct 19, 2011, 06:27 PM

In my DBT group we were supposed to come up with our own metafore for our Wise Mind. The process of integrating our rational mind with our emotional mind & coming up with our WISE MIND solution. The given metafore is a deep well in the ground.

Being not so good at metafore sort of things & hearing what others had come up with in our group, this flash hit me.....this whole process is like a rat in his maze, trying to find the cheese which is our reward for figuring out what paths to take to get there & making the right decisions. She is a cute Italian lady with a very Italian accent & she just couldn't understand what I was saying as I kept telling her it was a RAT MAZE. She liked the concept but thought I would be better calling it a laborinth & finding the center of peace being the WISE MIND.....but I said I would rather stick with my rat maze.

Well, the next week, I was about an hour late after being up all night trying to get my old desk top computer to be able to connect to the internet...got the hardware working no problem...but couldn't get the anti-virus stuff to load because the computer had not been used for so long, none of the updates were compatible & all my attempts to get them compatible kept failing. I finally decided to just walk away from my computer & head for my DBT group. When I got into the group, it was just before break time (good timing on my part

). During the break, she asked if I was ok.....I told her that the RAT TRAP in my RAT maze got me & I couldn't get loose but finally broke free in order to get there. She finally understood why I didn't want to change my metafore from the RAT MAZE as it really is much more fitting for my life than a laborinth.