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Originally Posted by confused_77
i talked about emails lot here but its such a big part of my life now. I email my therapist daily. I always have something to say. At first i thought once everything is explained i won't need it but the me write the more i have tell her.
As suggested in my other post i stopped worrying about how it affects her. she knows to tell me if it bothers her but we have not talked about emails for about a month is session. we do talk about the topics I cover in the emails though but not the emailing itself.
this insatiable need is fascinating. how much can you tell someone without getting an immediate response. i ask questions, i talk about so so many different subjects but unless it happens to be brought up in session not all questions get answered.
I spend so much time trying to understand and imagine what she might feel. did anyone ever have a person email then a lot? how did it make you feel?
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I use my journal this way. And yes, I ask her a zillion questions in my journal. They go all over the place from political stuff, academic stuff to does she even like me, why is she working with me. About 95% of the stuff I write her goes without discussion. I give her my journal and she reads it usually the day of my next session. I include detailed session notes so usually my journal is 8-9 pages single sided 2 x wk. I still am at emailing her almost weekly as well. That's more of an average because I'll go one week and email her every day and then maybe not email her for 2 weeks.
She rarely brings up anything I've written. If we are going to talk about it, I have to initiate it.
I don't have a clear handle on what you session frequency so I don't know if moving to a journal method would work for you. To be honest, I think if you can get to where you honestly are not concerned about your emailing her and remain curious to the process then I think you will be able to learn something valuable about yourself.