I need to understand something and perhaps this community will be of some use in doing so.

My therapist and I are at ends, I believe in something and want it entirely, and she believes it's not possible, that this is not the ways things work.

I need to rid myself of these images and terrible memories. I can't keep them anymore, I'm quickly losing my mind. I brought forth an idea today that I was and am certain will work, but my therapist says no. In fact she passionately disagreed that this was even a possibility.

I feel that if a brain can work to create memories, than it surely can be used to erase them too. Perhaps not in a literal way, but in a way such that you no longer believe them to be real. To further clarify, or simplify, I don't understand why we can't work to train my brain to remember these memories as though they've been created, as though they came from a movie I've watched or a book.

She seemed saddened that I would turn to this idea as if losing hope that therapy could work for me the way it's being performed now, and perhaps I am. I don't want to lose her due to my loss of confidence and patience, but I'm starting to feel the need to isolate and worse and that's frightening me more than ever.

Does anyone have any ideas of what to do, or thoughts about my idea. Do you think it could work? Couldn't we just give it a try? I don't know what to do, and I'm feeling really alone