Vienna, beside therapy you need deep relaxation. I earnestly advice you to go for yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, meditation, massages (if it's your thing) or anything as relaxing as these.
When a person is deeply relax, many miracles can happen.
Apprehensiveness I believe is felt when one feels vulnerable. Once you get to know your therapist, you will very likely feel less and less apprehensive.
Some people are easiler to open up to others and some are not, we are all different.
We need to accept ourselves just the way we are and keep working to be better.
I wish you well.//
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Originally Posted by vienna
Hi everyone,
Does anyone else ever feel apprehensive about going into T and just saying, "My week sucked?" and just laying it all out there? I am suspecting it is probably totally normal to do this, but I never have - too concerned about what the guy would think of me I guess.
I am having a hard time handling things, feel like I am about to drown if just one more thing comes along type of thing. I'm back to that place where I can't eat, I can't concentrate, sleep is hard to come by. Yes this probably has to do with some of what is being talked about in therapy. Some of it is probably just the normal day to day stuff that if I were in a better frame of mind wouldn't faze me.
How do you do it? How do you deal with the mountain of crap that comes up in therapy and keep chugging along? I have no idea. It's is overwhelming to me right now. I love how my T slows the session down with about 10 min left to go so I'm in one piece when I leave, but geez, I have yet to figure out how to apply that skill on my own in my day to day life, and it's really starting to feel like too much.
vienna
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