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Old Sep 15, 2015, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by SkyscraperMeow View Post
Does anyone ever get the feeling that therapy kind of breaks down what I strongly suspect one's therapist would call 'defences' and makes you aware of a whole lot of pain, and then (because that cannot feasibly be dealt with in one hour) just sends you out into the world to be crazy for a week?
UGH, YES. My T gets it because she's been in therapy. Last session she said "When I first started therapy, I would walk out and tell my T that she just sliced me open, rubbed salt in my wounds and then asked me to leave." Of course, it doesn't really help ME in the moment. I hate it. The thing that helps is that I walk to and from therapy, and my T suggested that I name everything I see as I walk home, it helps ground me and get me out of that post-session carp.

It is terrible, though.
Thanks for this!
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