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Originally Posted by Perna
I think you are still missing it; it's not about the language or concepts either! It is ONLY about YOU. You are not a book, you are not writing a book, you do not need to read books, study, or understand anything. You have the hard hard task of just being.
To put it in the words of schema therapy, you are overcompensating, using your intellect so you don't have to feel bad. However, you have to learn to feel good and bad if/when good and bad things happen to you and respond appropriately with yourself and the world around you.
You do not want to stay just in your head or respond just from your emotions. You are not just a head or just emotions (or just a body/physical sensations, or just a spiritual being, etc.). Therapy is about learning balance and learning to use our thoughts and emotions to inform us so we respond (in action) to ourselves and others in a way that is useful/helpful to us and them, mostly us.
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I agree with this completely. I've said before on these forums that I don't care what methods my T uses, and he's an eclectic psychotherapist, so who knows what he's doing at any point? I don't know, and I don't want to know because that could, as the OP said, ruin it. I have a tendency to over-think things. I don't want to get hung up and focused on his
methods - it's not about
him, it's about ME. This is where the trust thing comes in. If you can develop trust, then you can go where T leads without analyzing what he/she is doing, and focus on yourself.