I've been feeling really lousy all week. I seem to have 'post break' feelings. I feel my emotional pain physically, a kind of gut wrenching sorrow. I know these feelings, they are an old 'friend' that I've shut away all my life, but they rise up from time to time. I thought about asking for an extra session, but didn't, so I'm experiencing this alone. It was hard to ask since I'm not really sure what she thinks of me, and how she'll respond to this. I think perhaps I should have asked for an extra session - I think it's too late now it's Friday. I've been alone with these emotions all my life. Am I right in thinking that the point of therapy is not to be alone with my feelings anymore but to share them with someone for the first time in my life? Perhaps I'm wasting my therapy money and time by being too indecisive and reticent to ask for an extra session? I think some people on here talk about needing to learn to sit with your emotions yourself. That doesn't make sense to me as I've sat with these emotions by myself all my life.
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