I got a new therapist. She seems pretty good so far (ive only had 2 sessions so far but hey!). We are doing something new for me too - schema therapy. Definitely a bit bizarre and different but it makes a lot of sense. Seems very applicable to my situation.

I know in between sessions you are supposed to "work on things". In the past I have done this hardcore and it has (in hindsight) ruined my therapy. I find psychology to be very interesting so I used to research the mode of therapy I was doing and just read everything I could get my hands on about it. it was my desire to get well but also I just found it fascinating, really. But the downside to that is whenever a T would ask me questions, I would already know (or think I knew) what they were getting at or the angle they were working on and I think the lack of a bit of "mystery" ruined it a bit. And also I didn't need to trust the T because I had already seen oodles and oodles of stats about it so maybe that sort of cut out the interpersonal part of trust, blah blah.

But anyway. I know I still need to "work on things between sessions" but how can I do this without ruining everything? So far I just have left the whole idea of schema therapy alone - have held myself back (it was hard!! lol) from looking up anything even remotely to do with it etc. I never came across it much before so I have no knowledge about it other than what the T has told me. Im thinking this position of ignorance will benefit me in therapy (or at least moreso than what I used to do before). I don't have any biases or pro/con lists in my head this time around.

We haven't really gotten to the bit yet where you learn stuff in therapy and then take it home and use it. I know this will be one thing i have to do (makes sense to me). But other than that... what else?