Thread: therapy break?
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Old Aug 24, 2007, 09:36 AM
pinksoil
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gerber said:
what can my T do when i am like this? i have nothing to say because i am too tired.

do you guys think it would be better for me to hold off on therapy for when i am less depressed?

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Gerber, this is exactly, exactly what I went through during the last couple of weeks. I used the same exact phrase as you in session: "I'm just too tired to say anything." I told him I had no mental or emotional energy to even begin to talk about anything. Most sessions were dominated by silence. However, when I finally came back around (two sessions ago) to being able to feel something again, we were able to process the "dead" session. And the most significant thing was that my T told me that he realized that as depressed and resistant as I was being, that was me. And he had to let me be where I was at in the here-and-now. So he got to see the true me at that moment, right there in session. He said that it only strengthened our connection. Please, please don't quit therapy. Even though you don't feel like talking, you really do need him right now. Even for him to just sit with you through the feelings. And you never know when things will start to come out... Let yourself stay wity him so that he's there when you're ready. Stick with it.