I've always wanted to be part of a process group :-) I've done DBT group, but that wasn't a process group, it was more an educational and sharing your homework kind of group.
What I'd like about a process group... Would be that I'd get the opportunity to work through some relationship stuff. To do with how I think others perceive me, and how they do actually perceive me. To do with why I feel annoyed with people sometimes, and processing the reasons for that... Seeing other people struggling with (maybe even the same kinds of) issues might be quite validating in a normalizing kind of way, too.
It is kinda usual for us to behave a bit differently in different contexts. So the aspect of yourself that you show in class is different from the aspect of yourself that you show in church is different from the aspect of yourself that you show in a pub. And of course you are the summation of all of those aspects... And emphasizing certain things and deemphasizing certain things across different social settings is normal and adaptive etc etc.
Group probably will be fairly different. A different kind of social setting. I think it is pretty cool that you can keep your one on one therapy but also do this... I think you will still feel special. Maybe it is an opportunity to really come to feel that... You can be special (really very) and that other people can be just as special, too... And that there can be enough attention and care to go around...
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