I also thought it would be a one-and-done and that I'd feel great after sharing! I felt awful. I was sharing my traumas years after the fact as well. I'd been white-knuckling it for all that time.

A lot of times I would follow up a disclosure with talking about it without talking about it--so I might talk about the effect sharing had on me, how it made me feel and what I wanted from T, but not actually address the content of the disclosure. That helped a lot.

I think everyone is different, so you have to feel it out and see what you need. I needed to talk about my traumas a LOT, over and over again for a really long time. Other people need to discuss it once or twice. Respect where you are; talking about it at this session doesn't mean you have to talk about it at the next one. It's up to you.