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Originally Posted by My kids are cool
I get really frustrated with myself in therapy. I seem to be unable to really internalize certain things my therapist keeps saying. I know how much it ticks me off to have to repeat myself, so I get angry with myself when it seems like I am making him repeat himself. I'm really pretty intelligent. I can remember things after reading them once. What is WRONG with me? Am I emotionally stupid?
How about you guys? Does this happen to anyone else?
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It happens to me. I happen to know
I'm not stupid, so you're probably not stupid either.
It's a form of resistance. What the subconscious mind doesn't want to hear, the conscious mind cannot remember, and very often won't even understand. That's my theory.
I am making a serious effort to understand what my T is trying to say, but I just don't get it.
Tell your T that your
are listening but you're encountering subconscious resistance.
I don't know what happens next.
