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Old Jun 25, 2014, 04:45 AM
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Originally Posted by tigergirl View Post
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

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.