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Originally Posted by Middlemarcher
I came to therapy wanting my therapist to teach me how to not have such strong emotions. I truly and naively expected that this was somewhat possible, and that it was something therapists would do. Instead, I've learned to accept the fact that I have strong emotions, and to be able to deal with it. So maybe the same could happen for you-- you want to learn how to shut it down, but maybe you can learn how to accept that the desire is there, and how to cope with that immutable fact.
I will say, and I don't know if you'll appreciate this, that if I were you, I'd be as open as possible with this therapist. (I've seen you post once that you never shared something with your two previous therapists, for fear that they'd ascribe a significance to it that you do not.) If you want different results, you may have to behave differently. Just my two cents, take them or leave them.
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Thank you.
I think I'll give this one more chance when I return home for the summer. There are no official "Sex therapists" in my immediate area but I'm willing to give regular 'ol therapy another chance.
I don't want to
be sexual. It's just not "
me." But I also don't want to always have this raging feeling of internal conflict and on-and-off self-hatred going on for the rest of my life. And if I don't do something, that's exactly where I'll be.
So, I guess it's back to the couch with me!