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Originally Posted by ScarletPimpernel
Maybe one of the things you don't need are compliments. My T doesn't give any to me personally. She has me try to prove or disprove things about myself, but she doesn't give her own opinion. If I say "I'm a whale", she'll make me say it out loud process how it makes me feel, and then prove or disprove it. Usually, my perception of myself is wrong, and this exercise helps me make my own decision about myself.
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That does seem helpful. I wonder if I’d turn that into an exercise of just bashing myself and justifying it, though. She said it seemed like I was just going down the list of cognitive distortions today during our session, primarily with discounting the positives and then magnifying the negativives. It’s like she was pointing to examples in my life of how people like me and I was finding a way to discount her. I didn’t mean to be difficult, I just was saying how I actually felt. She acknowledged that she knew that she was making me uncomfortable.
I feel like I’m just failing therapy at this point. T is trying and I’m just not doing well, anyway.
