Therapy is about process and it can be a long one. There are days one doesn't want to get out of bed, go to school, go to work, do the chores but it is all necessary and part of the process. I was thinking about the difference between books and reality (or online relationships and real ones) and how with books and movies and Facebook, etc. we condense things and don't get the whole "fattened" picture of what makes up a True story; we only get the headlines/punchlines and not the underpinnings. My T once pointed out how reality is not like a book, in books "you don't go to the bathroom" for one thing :-)
Put in the time, go to the session whether you feel like it or not; I always found when I wasn't wanting to go and did, that the session turned out differently than I had felt it would. We can't really know/anticipate the future, all the feelings and thoughts, etc. beforehand are just our imagination, not "real". You have to go and see what is in the moment, what is real and how to work with that. Not going to a session, you "skip" that and don't get any practice/instruction on how to be real (which presumably is why you are in therapy?).
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