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 have been there, and I do wonder what my T will think of me but he once said that I'm not taking time out of my life to do this "fun and ever so simple" work b/c things are going well.

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. Again, I can really relate to that but another thing that my T told me was that he is not a mind reader and does not know when I am overwhelmed and what happens when I leave. My recent experience with discovering this is that unless I let him know he can't help. There are so many ways T's can help which is why they are in this field. Let your T know and I'm sure you guys can find some solutions so you don't have to be drowning.

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. There is something that I just started doing and both my T and I can relate to it. We both love working out and being active. There are so many times when I am on some machine or in a class or even blading that I feel I can't do it anymore and I play a game called 1-5 minutes depending on where I am at. Usually it works and I finish the work out or activity. Life is kinda like that for me right now and in my T's office we have started to use that method. It really has helped and the other day I found myself easing up and being in the moment which in turn helped not feeling so overwhelmed there or at home.