How does therapy affect, if at all, your non-therapy life? Do you find it easier to resume your "regular" life after your sessions or do you find that your therapy issues affect your non-therapy relationships and life?

For a while, I had an easier time keeping the two separate. The issues that we worked on in therapy rarely bled into my non-therapy life, unless it was a crisis situation. We'd talk about issues in our session and then I was able to go on my merry way, thinking about what we discussed, without it having a real emotional toll on me.

In the last few sessions, however, things have changed. We're talking about transference now (a very uncomfortable topic for me) and I'm extremely stressed out in my personal life, which is making it hard for me to turn off my emotional messiness in my real life.

Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts! And how you all are holding up