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Originally Posted by ThisWayOut
so, didn't get around to talking about any of it. She asked with 5 minutes left if there was anything else I had wanted to talk about. I told her that it was not a 5-minute topic, and that I would not be able to even intorduce it properly within the five minutes. I guess there were times I could have spoken about it in relation to what we were talking about in the moment, but I didn't know how to segway into it. :/ She was trying to get me to see that I have a lot of control of stuff that happens (both good and bad), and maybe that I should take credit for the good. I couldn't bring it up right then becuase it felt like it would have just been an excuse (at least she would have seen it that way).  I dunno... Maybe I shouldn't tell her. |
only you can say whether to tell your treatment provider something/anything or not (I know you werent asking us what to do, just my thoughts on it), you control what you talk about in therapy. sure therapists do ask a lot of questions but they also want to know what you want to talk about too, (as evidenced by her question at the end of the session) maybe you can do something like what I do.. when I have something to discuss with my treatment providers and dont want their questions to interfere or take me down other paths I go to therapy with a list of topics. I hand that list to my therapist saying, I know you have somethings you need to get to with me but can we work these in to the sessions too? my therapist looks at my list then she says sure which one would you like to work on today? then we pick something off my list.
when you are ready to tell your therapist things/anything it will happen. you control what you think and say. a treatment provider cant read your mind and they cant tell you to open your mouth and talk. only you can do that, and it will happen when it feels right to you.