So yeah, basically, one of the downsides of being in therapy is that it seems like my therapist and I are at cross purposes as to what to do to help me. Sort of like she's saying that I'm living in the past too much, that I should get back to our previous action steps (basically, they're steps I should take just to make a difference in my life) and so on. Meanwhile, I mostly want to deal with the bits of memory I have and treating some of the symptoms, so to speak. And it doesn't help that whenever I bring up those symptoms, it's as if she's kind of dismissive of them. "Well, they could have other causes..." Yes, that's true; we're complex human beings. Very complex. But whatever's causing them, I want to deal with it. I mean, it's like if you broke your arm -- you can either debate again and again over how the arm got broken ("Well, maybe Patient X fell out of a tree...") or you treat the injury.

*Sighs*

I really do like my therapist, don't get me wrong. She's a wonderful lady. But it just kind of feels like there's a massive misunderstanding between us and it's really frustrating. Maybe I'm putting too much pressure on her/just not doing the "work", so to speak, but it kind of feels like lately, we've been having a difficult time communicating.