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Originally Posted by Miswimmy1
My biggest issue is that when I talk to t, I often feel like whatever problem I had before is less problematic. Somehow, just talking to T makes me feel better and make whatever crisis I had been experiencing that day seem a little bit overly dramatic. So during session, I come across as doing okay. But either before session or after session, I am a complete mess.
After working with me for a while, most of my therapists have gathered this about me and can usually tell, either by tone of voice or something in my body language, that I'm not being completely honest and will press me for more details. And then as we start talking, sometimes the problem becomes more problematic again. If that makes any sense at all.
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I think I do the same! It's easier to believe the "good" thoughts in T's office isn't it?
My T knows how it is with me though because we have contact between sessions.
Also, the things that we have been over and over in therapy sessions have, for me, become gradually easier to hold onto outside of T's office, to the point that now they are my default position.
I'm glad that your T understands how it is with you! It's good that we feel a lot better with T, I think, but would be frustrating if we felt that they didn't know what was going on between sessions and outside of their office.