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Originally Posted by peaches100
Maybe instead of quitting therapy, you can limit the amount of time you spend thinking about/analyzing what's coming up for you in therapy. Can you compartmentalize a bit, opening up to therapy during your session time and then when it's over, containing what's left over and refocusing on your daily life?
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This is such wise advice (but so hard to do!!)
Somehow, I feel like I'm at a point (this week!) where I can spend my life outside of therapy thinking about things other than therapy. For ME, I think it's kind of because I've starting dealing with the things I have been avoiding since I started therapy. It doesn't make sense logically...but now that I'm diving into the darkest, scariest stuff, somehow, I am less spiraly outside of session. I almost wonder if that stuff has been pushing at me and pushing at me and I've been working so hard to push it away that it's been consuming me.
OR maybe it's just too hard to think about all of the time, so I use my (very advanced! lol) dissociation and compartmentalization skills to just make it go away when I'm not there.
Either way, it's nice to be able to think about other things. I know this will have it's ebbs and flows like everything else in therapy, and there will be times when therapy consumes me again....but it's nice to have this mental break.
(((((((((((((((((((ExoticFlower))))))))))))))))))))) Do you think you will take a break??
