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Location: michigan
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Dec 03, 2004 at 01:44 PM
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I had therapy yesterday, and I not only can't get our discussion out of my head, but I feel like crap. I am emotionally and mentally drained right now. I though therapy was suppose to make you feel better.
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Dec 03, 2004 at 01:52 PM
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I can identify with how you are feeling. Almost 24 hours after my appointment and I think I'm actually feeling worse and worse. Not better and better.
I think we feel the way we do because we have these really deep wounds. We've never really been able to heal them all the way down, but we kind of form a scab on top to keep it from hurting so much. Well, therapy rips those darn scars right off and we're all open and bleeding again. And therapy won't let us scab over again because to really heal we have to start from the bottom and work our way all the way to the outside. That said, I can only understand this intellectually. I still feel frustrated with the process and the pain. And I think a LOT about quitting all together. The only thing that keeps me from it is that I feel like I'll die without my therapist. That's painful too, but at least it keeps me going back. |
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Dec 03, 2004 at 04:49 PM
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I can identify totally with what you're saying. I'm finding out that we have to confront our problems head on and grit our teeth and not give up.
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Location: Northeast Tennessee
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Dec 04, 2004 at 12:25 AM
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Bren,
I, too, have very much felt like you and the others. But I think it truly is part of a healing process, although it is difficult to see it at the time. We're grieving. I found the following quote and I hope that it doesn't offend anyone. "Just as surgery gives a sharp pain to the body, so must there be some anguish in the recovering soul." --Gregory of Nyssa droopy __________________ </font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font> "As I sit on the balcony, a large flock of birds, maybe fifty or sixty swallows swirl around in large circles swishing past my observation post, sometimes in silence, more often with a terrible shrieking. They are like the many thoughts that go swirling around in my head, sometimes making an awful racket..." --Basil Pennington </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> |
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Dec 04, 2004 at 11:12 AM
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see, in the old days, they kept people like us in hospital LONG TERM to work on those big, deep, scary healing issues that required LONG TERM work to finish fixing and LONG TERM protection while doing so. nowadays it's all about the $$$, and hospital is only for a quick fix when you're su*c*dal or hom*c*dal. Thank you ronald ray-gun you f*$&#*g a*sh*le.
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Dec 04, 2004 at 04:06 PM
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Don't ya just love Ronnie, Mal? Back in those days I was borke and hitch-hiking across the state once a month to see my girl. Couldn't even buy a job. there were none. Long ago, tho, and better times are (maybe) coming. Anyways, I hate depression, too. But they don't hand out therapists to us po' foke, so I have no way to relate. Just thought I'd throw in a different point of view to stir up the water a bit. Good luck to you, bren. Support from here!
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Dec 05, 2004 at 09:28 PM
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Well, I'm not socialist but I'll add my opinion here anyway...
Therapy's end result is to not only "make you feel better" but gives you ways to continue feeling good and thinking well about yourself. If you have a visual mind consider a graph where the line during the week(s) you do NOT have therapy is straight, then the day you DO have therapy it dips , then after a day , it comes back up to the straight level. Many ppl think that their life is down and the therapy session is the part that's up and then when they leave, they go down again. Therapy IS work.. and it often needs to cause you to think about it after the session. If you find that you are incapable of functioning for a long time after session, you might be covering too much during the sessions, and need to discuss this with your therapist. __________________ |
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Location: michigan
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Dec 07, 2004 at 07:44 AM
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Thank you everybody for your support. I feel lots better.
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