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#1
Mar 22, 2014, 11:18 AM
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This week when I go for session, I want to tell T that I need her to challenge me. Now I don't know what that means, and I don't know what we'll be talking about or what I want to bring up, but I do know that I need a challenge.
For a few weeks now, I've been feeling like I'm just leaving so many topics open within session but not ever fully processing them. For example, I'll start talking about one thing, I'll talk about it on a surface level then I'll move onto something else, then something else never really finishing off any topic. And I really am starting to feel like I need to finish off each and every topic now, in depth. Does that make sense? And does anyone else feel that way? I've been seeing her for about 6 months now, and I'm just wondering how to even begin doing this. I hope I make sense. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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#2
Mar 22, 2014, 12:00 PM
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Yes, I totally get what you're saying. Maybe tell her what you said up there?
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HazelGirl PTSD, Depression, ADHD, Anxiety Propranolol 10mg as needed for anxiety, Wellbutrin XL 150mg |
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#3
Mar 22, 2014, 12:22 PM
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Maybe it's not so much of a challenge as it is direction. When I get like you're feeling, I need T to help me not meander, but asks questions and stay on topic. When I feel challenged, T brings up subjects that are touchy and I avoid.
It sounds like you have lots of things to say, and it does get convoluted. For me. |
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Mar 22, 2014, 01:45 PM
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Thank you both for your input. I'm planning on writing down every topic that I think I have still to explore, and I'll share it and what I said above with her this week. And I'll ask her to challenge me. I think. Maybe that will help.
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#5
Mar 22, 2014, 02:02 PM
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She could give you homework. Like a task to try and do in an area you have difficulty in.
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors. |
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Mar 22, 2014, 03:22 PM
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From what you have said here, I would just suggest she ask you, "Are you sure you have finished with this topic?" when you change to a new one. You may just unconsciously be 'changing the subject' when things make you anxious. I know I will sometimes find myself in the kitchen, looking in the refrigerator wondering how I got there
 and go back over what I was doing/thinking and find I might have been reading or something and had a thought/read something that made me anxious.
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#7
Mar 24, 2014, 08:30 AM
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I keep an on going list of topics I wish to discuss with her. And I like to keep the discussion going until I feel it was answered to my satisfaction.
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