Talulah - I was just reading back through this thread and I was thinking about a couple of things you said in this thread and over in my thread. One thing you may want to ask your T about why you aren't going to the core issues. Sometimes there is a reason. As I said in my post - the reason I started therapy and what we are currently working on are way different. My T told me that we can not possible work on my issues until the things that we are currently are dealing with are under control. I just an not well enough to deal with it all - I can barely deal with what is going on. If I bring up one of the original topics or something about myself that I would like to work on - he tells me a way to deal with it but that it is not the time to address it. It just would not be beneficial to me probably would be harmful right now. Don't get me wrong he is fine with me bringing the item up and always gives me a way to currently handle it but it isn't something we can currently address to really look at. Hope that makes sense. If not let me know. I don't know if this is the case with your T. Just a thought.