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Old Nov 17, 2018, 10:49 AM
Lrad123 Lrad123 is offline
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Originally Posted by octoberful View Post
In addition to what others said, the therapy stays in the frame. Now your feelings don't bleed out between sessions. If you felt child or strong transference feelings in session, you may have been feeling those in between, and intensified by the email interactions. Familiar to me, with my early trauma and severe neglect, at times it was like laying in my crib hungry and cold, but my mother never coming for me. Those feelings of dependency are very disempowering.

Perhaps now you are only feeling adult feelings and the transference is kept at bay.
Omg, yes. It felt exactly like my feelings were “bleeding out between sessions.” It was overwhelming at times. I most definitely still have “child” feelings but they don’t feel as out of control. Maybe that’s the “containment” you mentioned in another comment.