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Old May 24, 2013, 02:00 PM
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likelife, i'm having a hard time determining that actually. there are some sessions that i feel like i've learning something new to help with my situation, but there are times i go out of therapy going "???????" and being more aimless..

i guess it is my character. i like a direction and going into a session without any sense of what i really want to do most of the time is making me feel down..
Could this maybe be a conversation you have with your therapist- explicitly asking her to help you develop some large-scale direction (i.e., goals), from which you could extrapolate direction for each session?

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i tried the diary thing but when i go into the room my whole head goes blank and i'll feel frustrated and that starts the downward spiral.

the thing about my T is that she urm has an agenda everytime i go into therapy so in the end i'll follow her agenda. but at times i do feel like i'm just going with the flow and i don't know why i feel so bothered about it.
Perhaps handing what you write to your T at the beginning of the session would help? I understand the mind going blank phenomenon - it happens to me often. I think it's important for your T to know that you get kind of lost and then feel frustrated.