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Old Jun 05, 2008, 08:12 PM
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It took me about 3 years to start being able to do real work in therapy. That's not counting the seven or so previous therapists. I still have the long silences too, when I want to say something, but can't, so we stare at each other. How to do therapy is harder to learn when you have never been able to talk to anyone about your real thoughts and feelings. If someone always silenced you, than it's going to take time to overcome that. It would be nice if you could just know that therapy is different, but it doesn't work that way. Everything that you ever learned, and all that you are, you take with you into therapy. If you come from a world where nobody ever listened to what you have to say, then how are you supposed to know how to talk to someone who really does listen to you, and doesn't fill up all the space with their own version of the story as they want it to be told?

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