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Originally Posted by ruh roh
I'm not sure if my therapist gets how it was, whether she thinks it was worse or less worse than I do, but I do believe she gets how it is for me now because she sees when I have meltdowns. Even so, I have no way of knowing how things look to her. I do think most people experience their own life more acutely than a person on the outside would, but then again, she has used terms that I think overstate the severity of some things. It's kind of a muddle. Overall, I think you just have to know if your therapist is generally in the ballpark.
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You're probably right.
T has told me she can look at me (in a meltdown) and see my pain.
For me, it feels like it's my fault: I don't feel I am telling my story right. The enormity and awfulness of what happened to me growing up, AbusivePdoc1 or AbusivePdoc2... I can't even contain all the hurt and pain in my head- all at the same time- to be able to relate to her just how awful everything was...how I feel about it and how all those things affect me.
That's why I don't feel she gets it.
