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Originally Posted by Lrad123
The thing I struggle with is what you said about being used to doing things on your own. I’m also that way and assumed I was going to therapy to learn not to keep doing things that way. At first when he said he’d stop replying I wondered why the heck I should continue therapy if he was just sending me the message that I should do things on my own. I think that’s not exactly the message he’s sending, though, and I guess that’s what I’m in the middle of trying to figure out.
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Your thinking here strikes me as sort of all-or-nothing. Either you are supported all the time, in session and out, or you are on your own. But I think maybe the idea is that you get support in session, you know it will be there again later, so inbetween you can just go out and do your thing without help. If therapy was food this would be like eating only at meal times, maybe. You eat, it's enough so you're not hungry and you don't have to snack constantly, and then you eat again at the next meal.
I'm glad this has been such a good change for you!