I don’t know if it’s the same, but maybe? I have been sharing some big stuff with T lately—stuff that we didn’t even know was there—and have also been managing regular life stresses with a big one (buying/selling/moving).

My sessions with T are helpful, though challenging, but afterwards I tend to feel overwhelmed. I feel like “ohh, okay, some of the stuff that happened and happens to me is pretty awful.” But those awful feelings—horror, really—feel trapped inside me. So I pretty quickly turn to feeling hopeless, or sad, or angry. I just think it’s a lot of emotion all at once and it’s hard to parse out what I am feeling. I tend to just feel “bad.”

I do think getting a little meta and spending time talking about how talking about hard things makes me feel can slow the pace a bit and give me a chance to get my legs under me again.