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Originally Posted by tooski
Sounds like a really good session. Glad you were able to speak up and didn't hold it all inside. Good work, rainbow!
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Thank you, tooski. I'm glad I told my T too.
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Originally Posted by Favorite Jeans
I like this forum because it can be nice to hear other peoples' perspectives. I often feel reassured that so many other people experience therapy as a huge life project and have so many disparate and intense feelings about it. But I don't generally base my life decisions on what people are saying on PC. Like all advice, some of it is good, some is bad. Some observations seem particularly astute and relevant to my situation and others less so. It's just one more way of interacting with people. It's not a cult or binding arbitration or anything. Does your T feel that you're unduly influenced by the other folks on PC?
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Yes, FJ. My T does think I'm too much influenced by what other people tell me on this forum. I think her main objection is that she's my T, not anyone here. She wonders about non-professionals giving advice to people in therapy. I think most of the advice is helpful; some isn't, and triggers me. I know I have to make my own decisions, though. It made sense to me to try not to tell my T about going on FB, but as I sat in my session I realized I had to tell her. I still think the advice to try to let it go was valid.
I've sometimes gotten really triggered when my T has been criticized. I have trouble with "like all advice, some of it is good, some is bad." I don't always know which is which!
Sometimes there is no right or wrong, just different approaches.