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Old Jan 11, 2012, 12:56 PM
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... I'm SO upset with how it went! I need a do over - I know exactly how it should have gone and what I should have said, but it's no good now! :'(

I'm honestly BEYOND annoyed with myself, and I already have an overflowing tank of self hate... I don't... I don't know what to do with it all, I really don't! I'm so dangerous. I'm probably having a huge overreaction, but it's a bad time of year, I'm so sensitive and in a precarious state already, and I haven't self medicated enough to shut my feelings off today.

I want to explain, but words just aren't coming right now. I'm really sorry. I'll try in a while.. it just.. bleurgh. I go to pieces, like this!
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Pitiful and pathetic session with T today...

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Old Jan 11, 2012, 04:40 PM
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The great news is that T is one of the few instances in life where we do get a do-over if we want it: same time, same place, next week?

Be gentle with yourself
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Old Jan 11, 2012, 04:43 PM
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Oh, this is so hard. I have been there. I tried to remember it as a lesson. I use the memory to remind myself how frustrated I get when I don't address the things that I need to talk about. It has helped me find ways to talk while I am in session.

The good news is that you showed up and you did the best you could do at the time. Let that be good enough for now.
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Old Jan 11, 2012, 05:17 PM
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Woody Allen said it best

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Just going took big courage! Next time, better and then even better!
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Old Jan 12, 2012, 10:34 AM
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The most therapeutic part of therapy is letting it all out, just as it is, examining it with T and then working on it. This is how therapy is supposed to go. If you were all put together flawlessly why would we need therapy? We are all okay just the way we are. We all deserve to be loved, just the way we are. We don't need to be perfect to be loved. Can we work on things to make our lives better? You bet. But even so, we are okay just the way we are.
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Old Jan 12, 2012, 10:47 AM
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I already have an overflowing tank of self hate... I don't... I don't know what to do with it all, I really don't! I'm so dangerous. ....I'm so sensitive and in a precarious state already, and I haven't self medicated enough to shut my feelings off today.
BashfulBear, please come back & update! I hope you're not still self medicating, especially if you were already "so dangerous." As the other posters have already said, therapy has "do-overs" built right in. Whatever didn't go right for you, you can go over with your T & re-work it till it is right. & if you don't think you can, you thrash it all out here!
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Old Jan 12, 2012, 11:14 AM
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i don't think i can say anything differnt then what everyone here has already said perfectally but want to send hugs and suport.i hope your next session will go better next week
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