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Old Oct 14, 2018, 12:46 AM
MRT6211 MRT6211 is offline
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I’m going to come off weird, I think, but yes, definitely...the longest one I wrote was a 16 page typed single spaced letter about everything significant in my past that was affecting me today. That was months into therapy with this therapist, and I hadn’t shared anything truly personal with her before that. I just opened the floodgates with that one and then we ended up doing really, really great work from then on. And our work centered on my writing. I wrote to her every day, and I write to my T now every day. I write journals, essentially, but written to T. I send them the night before session, she reads them, and then we talk about what I wrote. For me, therapy works better this way. I can never get myself to bring up difficult subjects in person. I shut down or don’t say directly what I’m thinking or mean, usually. My journals each week tend to be 5-10 pages. I’m lucky to have Ts that have been able to accommodate this.
Thanks for this!
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