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Old Mar 05, 2018, 01:16 AM
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This makes absolute sense and you can work on it with your therapist just as you would work with them when you are feeling bad. I went through (brief, sadly) period of feeling okay, and I expressed to my therapist that I felt like I didn't WANT to feel better, which is crazy of course! I felt over dramatic saying "I don't remember what it's like to feel happy" but my T agreed, she said "It makes sense that this is so weird for you, it's a completely foreign feeling and people don't like unfamiliar feelings, even if they're good feelings." I also mentioned that I didn't see the point in feeling happy when I know I'm just going to crash again.

So we worked on that in session, about how I can come to accept my feelings including the good ones, and how I can stop self-sabotaging. We also touched on how feeling better would affect therapy, and she told me that just because I'm feeling better doesn't mean we've achieved the goals we set when I started therapy. She said we're not done yet. So feeling okay doesn't have to mean you have to stop seeing your therapist. It just means the start of a new and different conversation with your therapist.
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