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Originally Posted by harrietm
Then 9 months into it we had a different type of session, and he said at the end of it "this is the first normal therapy session we've had."
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I'm curious about what he meant. How was that session more normal?
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Originally Posted by HereAndThere
But is that all there is too it, me going in and talking?
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I think it depends on what you need. If that is what you need, then keep going with that. With my first therapist, who I saw off and on for 9 months, a big role of the therapy was giving me a place where I didn't have to pretend that things were OK. It was so much pressure to have to go through the work day, to have to go through the mechanics of home life, while appearing functional and fine, that therapy was a relief for one hour to drop that facade. Later, I needed a different thing from therapy. So I would encourage you to seek out what you need in that room.
There are some mock (and some real) sessions of therapy you can view online, that might be interesting for you to look at to understand the range of what can happen in the room. Also, transcripts of sessions. I read some of these once quite some time ago and remember thinking, what they're talking about sure is boring! I guess our own lives are most fascinating to ourselves.
But even that gave me useful information, as in I didn't want to spend my sessions talking about stuff like that.