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Originally Posted by satsuma
When I first started therapy, I used to worry that by telling things to my T I was "just attention-seeking". (Yeah, that's what I had been told in my previous experience by others...) My T responded something along the lines of "How can you be attention-seeking by saying these things here? I'm just a person in a room."
Slightly strange way to put it, but it helped me and it stuck with me - I often thought of that. Why would I tell these things in the "secret" of therapy, to a person in a room who will never repeat it, if it was attention-seeking?
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Thanks satsuma, that's a good way to look at it that I never thought of before. I guess if I were attention seeking I wouldn't be on an anonymous forum agonizing over whether it's too needy to share a significant thing with my therapist :/
Right now everything feels so pointless and hopeless, I don't know what good telling him can do. But I guess it can't hurt as long as I make sure I won't end up in the hospital