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Jul 25, 2022, 01:42 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Last week my therapist said she'd read a novel that she wanted to share with me. She seemed to think it was humorous, and she told me that the mother in the book reminded her very much of my mother. The story is about 3 sisters, each of whom have a mental health issue due to childhood trauma, their brother (he's developmentally disabled), their grandmother who has dementia and thinks she Amelia Earhart, and the mother, a wacko woman who is mean to her daughters (my mom was entirely different in her style of abuse).
The novel's name is Henry's Sisters.
I started reading the book, which is so poorly written it's sad, and found it to be odd. Not at all engaging. So after about 100 pages I just skimmed through the rest (the novel is way too long). Among a few other things the story portrays the girls having been traumatized when they were younger by finding that their mother
A long time ago I told my t that I had been
But she certainly knows that I grew up in a home in which there was serious, relentless violence.
The strangest part of this to me is that some months ago I asked my t to watch a short video, a scene from a movie, that I felt expressed the kind of rage I was feeling. The scene was violent, but I was asking for my t's empathy for how I was feeling at the time. Her response to my request to watch the video was "I probably wouldn't want to see it. I don't like to watch things like that."
This afternoon I have a therapy session and I am going to bring this stuff up with her. All of it is really bothering me.
Thanks for reading my vent. 
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