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Old Jan 09, 2008, 02:01 PM
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Perna Perna is offline
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Been there, done that :-) It was not pretty. I was changing jobs and moving from my home of 13 years and had been seeing my therapist for 9 years! I was leaving all my friends and moving an hour north to be near my new boyfriend (now husband :-)

I shut down my "depth" for 2-3 years, couldn't get past the surface me. It was like my unconscious was holding a convention and I wasn't invited, like Dorothy being locked out of the tornado shelter. Everything was "fine" but there was no Me like I was use to, it was very weird and sometimes distressing.

I went back to seeing that T 9 years later and eventually got to talk a bit about that period when I'd had to terminate because I was moving and what the 9 years had been like. It was traumatic talking about it! I hadn't realized that it was now "safe" to feel about it because I was back seeing her and I felt with a vengence :-)
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