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Originally Posted by stopdog
I am getting better at not falling for the woman's tricks. One reason I am so put out with myself over the appointment two weeks ago. I have spent this time practicing not being tricked and trapped. I even dreamed about the therapist trying again at me last night and dodged the trap nicely. Woke up feeling rather pleased. In the dream, she acknowledged my dodge.
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Preemptive strike: okay, I know we all do therapy differently. Please take that answer off the table.
I see the trick as being directed at the bad introject, that part of us that gets in the way of our own happiness. Perhaps the superego. Why protect it? Ie why do you want to protect it? If that is the part that is telling you to smash yourself, why don't you just smash it instead? And let me say, I DO understand this, because I was having heart attack symptoms before I would let myself off the hook. I had to say, do I want to have a nervous heart attack and DIE, or do I want to live and say, "you can't do this to me anymore. I don't care if you understand or not." I don't know of course what you would "say" to whoever. But IF you were to say something, what would it be...? (Uh-oh - trick question! But serious too)