I did cold turkey (instigated by myself) by using my journal more. Of course, that first week I accidentally left it in her office (T was going away). So, she had to take care of my journal while she was away, LOL.
I reasoned that since I only had what was "there" that I'd better be there too. So, I hyperfocused during the time I was in session rather than afterwards since there would be no afterwards. I started thinking about therapy a bit less when I wasn't there (since my T wasn't there either) and paying more attention to school, work, daily chores, etc., my actual life and its problems. It was kind of nice to be forced back to them a bit more instead of concentrating quite so hard on therapy when I wasn't at therapy. It took about a month or so to get use to the switch and to do therapy only in therapy.
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