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Originally Posted by chihirochild
I survived skiing! My thighs are sore but I feel good otherwise--nothing broken, despite a massive wipeout halfway down an intermediate hill.
In other news, my T and I have been considering increasing session frequency from once a week to twice a week. But in one of those weird paradoxes of which my therapist is incredibly fond, T says that I have to be stable for that to happen because he doesn't want my illness to be the mediator of our relationship, doesn't want more sickness to mean more attention, etc. So now there's a part of me that's kind of afraid to tell him if I'm not doing well, because I would like to have two sessions a week.
Therapy is so so weird. (Or, perhaps more accurately, my therapist is so so weird.)
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That seems really confusing... I go twice a week, and I feel sort of the opposite, where I worry if my T thinks I'm doing well, he'll say I should decrease sessions. Though he's learned from any time he's just hinted at that to stay far away from it--once I'd said at the start of a session that I wasn't sure what to talk about, and he'd said that can be a sign it's time to reduce sessions, and I got pretty upset. And said it was more that I wasn't sure *which* thing to talk about, not that I had nothing. He's said since then (and before that) how it's up to me when to reduce sessions. That he wonders if regular therapy is what does enable me to cope with life (if I seem to be doing better).
I'd discuss your concerns with your T. That you want to try twice a week but then worry you'd be reluctant to tell him if you were struggling more, for fear he'd say you had to stop that. I've found twice a week helpful, incidentally--can make more progress that way, and I worry less about a wasted session.