Yea, & it's so deflating. Yea, there is a but!! For me it indicated a fall back to the easy way of making pain to away. But because in the mean time had developed coping skills that could override the actual doing & keep it in the realm of thinking. Even trust enough in my T to be able to call & say this is getting close to doing, I need to come in. That's actually taking care of myself! SH popped into my head recently. My T & I talked about why that had been the only option at the time. I even posted here asking why it worked. New skills take practice & time to put into place. Practice to become the first go to. To become entrenched. Gees, like learning that new grip in tennis...always fall back to the old, ineffective, comfortable hand position!!!!


QUOTE=Glittering;5970540]Has anyone found that therapy has triggered behaviours that they thought were in the past? I hadn't SHed or engaged in any ED behaviour in 12 years and yet these have both become problems again since being in therapy. Granted, I have also had some very big life changes in that time (having first baby, going no contact with my parents) that may well have set off these ways of coping for me again. I guess there's just part of me that wonders if the work I'm doing in therapy has contributed and was curious to see if anyone had experience of this happening too.[/QUOTE]