No, I don't record them. I end up spending hours typing up the one hour of session. I leave session and most the time I walk for about an hour after session with just me and my mind/thoughts. I try to type up as much as I can as soon as I get home. I start by typing up how I get to session, what my thoughts were as I was going to session, what it was like to enter the building, getting to the waiting room... I try to really put myself back in that space. And well... T never says how accurate my session notes are, so ... who knows, maybe I'm way off base with things. I don't use quotes because I'm not sure if what I say in the write ups is exactly what was said in session. What I write up is what I have internalized as the session. I don't try to make it be perfect.

Sometimes I don't remember as much as other times and I start with an outline of the big topics. Sometimes it's easier to remember because we are working off my journal or I go in with a listed agenda and work off that.

There were times early on in therapy where I dissociated much more and would loss big chunks of session time. That was before I was posting them here. My session notes were still long because I would write up what I was experiencing at the time.

Oh, and I do think writing them to her (to T) makes a difference; not sure though.