[crystalrose]

i sent T a message on the net and she wil want to talk about it all. T come up with brilliant way to communicate. A blog. Its been good so far. I just wish i didn't express strong feelings on the net.i'm feeling confused and sad and need advice and hugs. Help.

[skeksi]

It sounds like you're glad to be able to communicate with T, but worried about your words being public. Is there a way to make the blog private so only she can read it? I know some blogs, the entries can be password protected--and if she's the only one who has the password, it's between you and her.

[Indie'sOK]

I agree with Skeksi - my T and I use blogging when she wants me to write about something, but I really don't want to share it with the internet.

[deliquesce]

woah - that really is a brilliant idea, hey?

pdoc lets me text him, and i often tell him things i'm too scared to bring up in session. i definitely relate to being confused and sad, too. i told him about my doggie on friday, but i'm uncertain about whether i should have now.

but pdoc did reply to my txt, and i'm sure T will respond to your blog entry too. i dont think you expressing strong emotion is a bad thing - this is exactly why she set it up as a means to communicate.

take care of yourself, sweetie, and don't beat yourself up for doing hard work!

[sunrise]

I love the idea of a blog for just you and T. When you say you sent her a message on the net, do you mean you made a blog entry or sent her an email? When you said you didn't want to express strong feelings on the net, did you mean you didn't want to communicate by blog/email or that you wish you didn't have these strong feelings that you couldn't contain until your session? (If it is the latter, it sounds like your T is providing the blog to help relieve that. If it doesn't help you, you can let her know and not do it anymore. And you can ask her for ideas for other forms of relief, such as writing in a journal.)

If it were me, I would want to know what security measures were in place on the blog so that I could be sure it was accessible only to me and her. I wouldn't want anyone else to be able to find it by accident or have it come up in a google search. Is it password protected?

[crystalrose]

i sent a blog message with some feelings that were a bit strong. I'm ok with it now. just freaked out a little bit. The blog is set to private and only T and i know the password. I'm going to see if this works.

[rainbow8]

I wish my T would have let me email her. She just doesn't do therapy that way. She wants to talk face-face and would use email just to change an appointment or something like that. She said if I ever wanted to email her something, to do it and print it out, then bring it to the session. I don't think I ever did that. I think if your T lets you have a blog or email, it's great, even if you have strong feelings.

[crystalrose]

T supervisor wouldn't let T give me her email address so thats why we created a blog. T supervisor agreed to the blog. T will check it 2 times a week. We haven't made any desision about whether T should reply to everything or just to things that she wants to.. What does everyone think.

[rainbow8]

Wouldn't that be up to your T to decide what to reply to?

[crystalrose]

yeah that is. Its just i was wondering how will i know that T has read what i wrote? Maybe she could write in the comments section that she has read it.

[Brightheart]

Originally Posted by rainbow8

She said if I ever wanted to email her something, to do it and print it out, then bring it to the session.

That's exactly what I did every single session. Although, I remember if there was something very big to reveal, I always wanted to do that verbally. It helped me so much. I remember him saying at the beginning after reading one of my typical 3 pages letters something like, "Wow...I wasn't sure if you were getting it...but you get it better than I do." With a chuckle, of course...

Anyhow, Crystal, sometimes it can be really helpful in reaching your therapist if writing helps you to express yourself. Good luck.