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This is really helpful thank you! That is a good incentive - quite like mine that I want to move forward and I can't finish therapy unless I stop self harming. I'm a little worried about emailing my therapist as much as I want to. I try not to because I think I'd be irritating, and I don't trust her yet to not get a backlash from it. I feel I need some additional support sometimes, but that might be an excuse. I'm glad you went through the same sort of thing and had the same compulsion - I thought it was just me!
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No, it's not just you.
I should back up and say that PrevT and I worked out the multi voice mail deal where she told me I could leave as many messages as I needed. We worked out how often she would listen to them, which ones she would respond (call me) to and when she would prefer that I called her directly.
This coping strategy helped me. This - or something else- might help you.
I agree with the posters who suggest you talk with your T about other positive coping strategies. My T calls them my "tool box." I call them my "menu." Some things are on the menu, some things are off the menu...sort of thing.