How to stop obsessing over therapy?

Does anyone know anything you can do to put your mind off it between sessions.

I have almost like an OCD way of not being able to stop thinking about my therapist, but it's exhausting and getting in the way of other things.

i count down the days as soon as i step out of her office lol because there is so much left unsaid and i told her this i only see her twice a month she told me she would see about seeing me more often but i get a little ocd about it as well time stops the minute you walk out of the office waiting to be seen again, i try to engage in other activities to keep myself busy but it seems that nothing helps, right now im going through a mini depression so everything is slow, im not manic or hypo or my normal baseline so its slow i see my t again on the 5 th of sept you may as well tell me it feels like 2 yrs away

Well, I might not be the right person to offer advise on this one --I'm kinda obsessing over T myself-- but I will tell you what my rational part believes. Unfortunately, it's paired with a pretty stubborn irrational one, but meh, not much I can do about it.

Focus on the people who chose to be in your life. Open up your heart to them, tell them about your struggles and they'll share their own. Friends are not just for hanging out together and going to the movies or whatever. They want to help through hard times; all you have to do is let them.

When you let "nothing" happen in your personal life(friends, family, flirts ), then the obvious and pretty much the only choice you have is to obsess over what's happening in therapy.

I'm working on deepening my existing relationships and I know it's hard. But give it a try, it's worth it.

Hope I helped. Take care.

It is hard to find a balance between healthy and unhealthy thoughts about t and therapy but the goal is to apply your feelings about your therapeutic relationship(providing it's good) to your real life relationships. Skinny soul did a better job explaining.

Not sure you're supposed to cut out thinking about therapy between sessions. Therapy is about thinking. Therapy also happens between sessions.
At first it can feel too much, but that's natural. Like a man in the desert finding water after days without. He gulps at first but then....

You are right Mouse but sometimes we get caught up on thinking about our therapist and not the therapy and that's when it becomes a problem.
Btw, I love your analogies and comparisons, they remind me of Simon Cowell lol

There's thinking about therapy/therapist, and then there's obsessing/fixating on therapy/therapist. Thinking is good and can be very constructive; fixating probably needs some sort of intervention. You have to find other outlets for your brain be that reading (something non-therapy related), puzzles, good movies, socializing, meditating, exercising, etc. Give yourself permission to spend a specific period of time each day thinking about therapy specifically, but try to keep that appointment with yourself and use your other time for other "appointments" with yourself. Takes a great deal of self-discipline, but it is doable.

Thinking about the therapist is part of the therapy. Have you not heard of "object relations".

I think that obsessing over your therapy and/or your therapist could fall into the realm of transference. I also think though, that a lot of therapy has to do with processing what is going on- in session, as well as out of session. Its just about finding the balance. I wouldn't worry about it, unless you are finding that things are not getting done as a result of your obsessing, because thinking about your therapist and your therapy is normal.

When i was younger and had my first t, i obsessed about it a lot too. I dont do it with my new t though. One thing that helps is that my life is so busy, so my days are full of work, kids, family, pets, hobbies, exercise, and i also read a lot. Filling my time with things i enjoy doing seems to help.