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Hi Ipse, I was responding to your question and referring to my attachment with my T. I do have anxiety and that isn't always good but I'm starting to see the point of the attachment so I'm feeling better about it.

I have a habit of not explaining things fully. sorry about that. Oh and the "giggle" is my way of making a joke that this could all change for me next week depending on how the session goes. But I hope not. I probably could've left the humor out as that doesn't help you much. I'm sorry I hope I didn't offend you.

I am impressed with your posts and progress! You seem to be truly giving all of this attachment a good thought. That is what therapy is all about.

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No offense at all. I was just trying to get some insight on what "good anxiety" might be. And if you feel a need to use humor, don't hesitate. It is you taking care of you.

My therapist has said explicity that "attachment" is good in ways because it means "trust" is growing. My health insurance provider, on the other hand, has explicity said that they have concerns I'm becoming too attached and not making progress to expand into the world. My therapist tried to explain to the them that me becoming attached is progress. She told them she doesn't see attachment as me "getting worse" but as me getting better. (Once again, I hear what she says "logically" but my "emotional self" doesn't know what the heck she is saying. )

The insurance company requires treatment plans to be submitted by my therapist, in order for them to approve visits. I once wrote up my version of the treatment plan. My therapist used some of it but in general needs to write it up herself, but she was very welcoming of my input. One thing I wrote in my plan about attachment was this (note I wrote it in third-person" so any "he" references refers to me):

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The longer he puts up with the fears and anxieties surrounding this attachment and, in the capable care of a therapist who guides his awareness, as he experiences that he not being hurt and is accepted just as he is, the closer he comes to breaking the old pattern and emerging into a new and healthier self-awareness.

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And the very last part of my treatment plan, a part of me that I have dubbed my "supportive voice", wrote this:

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His healing is not envisioned with a “this is good enough for him to get by” approach. Such an approach would dishonor him and would, in part, be condoning the abuses he suffered. His healing is envisioned as something bolder, something that acknowledges the fact that every human deserves to have peace and dignity, a vision where he intimately knows this and fearlessly follows the calling to live that in his own life, for self and for others who pass on the journey.

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In a questionarre I gave to my therapist to answer before I returned from my therapist break, I explicity asked her she thinks that kind of vision of healing is appropriate for the therapeutic setting.

Sometimes I get in more lucid and positive moods and I believe that these visions can be achieved, even if not completely in therapy but in life in general. But my "lucid and positive moods" are extremely rare. So follow-through is rare.