Personally I found this thread a good one. Sometimes I read others people's posts about different interactions they had in therapy and it creates yet another cycle of self doubt. Am I don't it right? Am I supposed to be doing or experiencing something I'm not? Am I normal? Is my T a good T? "Why can't I feel this or that?" The list goes on and on for as long as I allow it to. I think what I am hearing yet again is that the therapeutic relationship is unique. I just need to accept that there is no right way to do it! Not sure why this I am so thick headed and keep circling my way back to "AM I NORMAL" when there is no static or defined parameters for normal.

I really think it is cool what some of you have experienced with your T. Pink... I would love to be open enough to tell my T or more importantly my husband or friends about my fantasies and dreams. For others I think it is cool that you can transfer feelings towards your T's so that you can work through issues before sharing them with the whomever. Or in my case actually feel and express some stuff that I should have felt and express to people before they died.

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When I began therapy I was so detached from some of my feelings that I didn't believe they existed. I had completely compartmentalized and had everything tidied up in neat little packages.

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Sister, you can't image how much this comment help me today. THANK YOU!

My current therapeutic relationship is helping me. It is a real relationship that I am trying to build. It doesn't have all of the emotional exchanges that some of you all have, but I think I'm the one who is controlling that.

Thank you all for reminding me yet again that there is no such thing as normal. I'll apologize in advance for the next time I fall back into this self doubt cycle, if the pattern holds I will be here yet again.