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Originally Posted by MINIME
I have a small wooden box with a clasp and I would write it down and put it in the box and then bring it to therapy. When the thing popped up I would say no its in the box I can deal with it later. If it was just a bad feeling I had over and over I used beads or m&M's or gummy bears. Then I would talk about it later.
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I like the idea of having an ACTUAL BOX (instead of a vision of one in my head). When I wrote something down and put it in my box at T's office, that felt a lot different than trying to conjure up a box in my head.
Some people have said that their problem is everything is in a box and they can't get it out...that's what I told T the first time he mentioned it to me. He said that this would be different. This is me choosing, carefully, to put something in the box, with a promise of bringing it out later to look at it and deal with it. Not Fort Knox, which is essentially where I've kept everything up until now!