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Originally Posted by tigergirl
I'm not really sure what I'm asking exactly ... I seem to have been thinking on and off lately about the idea of change as a result of therapy ... whether it leads to short term change or long term change, or any kind at all; what it is about therapy that helps people to change.
I suppose a bigger question for me personally is what is missing in not making the changes I need to make; what I can do to overcome this; what has to happen within and outside of therapy; and a sense of personal frustration
For now, possibly I'm asking things like have you changed as a result of therapy; what helps you to change; what does your therapist do that has helped in connection to lasting or temporary change; are there things that would help that are missing from your therapy?
Sorry to be unclear but hopefully someone can understand what I'm asking
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For me the biggest changes are that I started to question things. I'm not saying 'this is just me' anymore. It's not because you've always been a certain way that you can't change this. So I keep my eyes open whenever I feel like I could get trapped in that thought.
But I'm also aware of the fact that a lot of things are changing without me really being aware of it. It's only when you look back at a certain moment that you notice that you've changed quite a lot. I think that that is the true strength of therapy, because simply 'knowing' something doesn't make it work. It's not because I know that I hide my feelings that I can, all of a sudden, show them for example. But by taking steps into that direction (encouraged by a T), you get there.