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Originally Posted by Chartres
I have lots of anger and rage which I know I need to deal with. Most of it is related to csa and directed towards my parents but right now I also have some anger towards T for how he has/has not responded to me.
I don't know how to appropriately express this anger during therapy. I have said "I am angry" or "I feel angry" but this type of calm statement does not shift the anger for me. What I really want to to is yell and scream.
But when I so much as raised my voice with a previous T, she told me that she would not work with me if I couldn't control my anger. So I'm afraid that current T will terminate me if I really get angry. But since I am thinking about leaving him anyway, maybe it doesn't matter.
How do you express anger during therapy? How does your T respond?
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omg, I have had this conversation with T a million times. I can't get angry there. The kicker is, I do get angry, just I don't know or feel it until I get home. I have told him I want to get mad and yell but he doesn't let because somehow he's too nice and it won't happen. He was amused and clarified that the only way I'm going to break-through in therapy is if he mistreats me. I'm like, yeah, pretty much! He won't do it! Gahh.