Sitting, I'm glad you figured out a plan.
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Originally Posted by sittingatwatersedge
If I simply have to tell SOMEONE a deep problem, T is the one; telling an additional person won't necessarily help me, and may harm them, or others....
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I totally do this too, as I tend to be very careful about protecting people who have confided in me, and not sharing their secrets (as I would want them to do for me). Thus I wind up sharing/processing most of that stuff with T, not other friends.
But... am I being too absolute there, thinking I am betraying if I need to process with somebody (a non-T)? Lots of people aren't in therapy...do they not get to process these things with anyone? There have been times when I really needed to process things, and it was isolating for me not to be able discuss it (for fear of betraying). Also, maybe it's isolating me from other friends, by me not emotionally investing by processing things with them, saving all that for my T instead? I don't know...just thought that was an interesting subtopic you raised....