OH, and back to your original questions - I'm just the opposite. It's pretty easy for me to go in and just talk the hour away with the list of things that happened throughout my week, keeping everything very much just at the surface. I can get myself to talk about deeper things as long as we don't really label it or talk directly about what it is those things mean for a very long time. For example, my transference - I inched and dribbled pieces of it into my journaling over several months (a journal that I give her to read) before I said I was feeling any of that stuff verbally. It was still a couple months later before we talked about transference as a separate entity. It was about 9 months before I actually admitted to how depressed and I was when I first went to see her. And only last week that we seriously talked about OCD and Asperger's traits (we are at 15 months). However, I did tackle the gender stuff starting about month 5.

So, I guess I am just the opposite here.