 |
| FAQ/Help |
| Calendar |
| Search |
|
#1
Nov 03, 2014, 05:47 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
I will add more later got a T appt in 10 mins.
Kintsukuroi | Bored Panda What does everybody else think. |
 JustShakey, KayDubs, musial, precaryous, StressedMess, ThingWithFeathers, unaluna
|
|
#2
Nov 03, 2014, 06:17 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
|
| Depletion, JustShakey, ruiner, unaluna
|
|
#3
Nov 03, 2014, 06:24 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
I don't see therapy quite so romantically. I also do not see myself as broken or a therapist as doing anything useful at all except sitting there pretending to be the other human in the office - so my view on it may not be the most prevalent.
__________________
Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. |
|
#4
Nov 03, 2014, 07:04 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
 but i tend to sway between your outlook and the romantic.
|
|
#5
Nov 03, 2014, 07:05 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
|
|
#6
Nov 03, 2014, 07:41 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
That is such a beautiful analogy. I have always seen myself as broken and therapy trying to mend the broken pieces. I am more valuable now then before therapy.
__________________
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. |
|
#7
Nov 03, 2014, 08:43 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Interesting analogy and I can understand why you see it as an explanation of what your therapist is helping you do for yourself. I don't think, however, that I see myself as broken. I've always kind of felt that there was something missing inside of me. . . something that I was born without. I've even described it to my therapist as a "missing chip." It makes me feel as if things others are able to do, I'm unable to do because there is something is missing inside of me. I remember once saying, half in jest and half truthfully, that I wanted her to give me the manual that everyone else in the world seemed to have read about how to function in the world. She was never able to give it to me and the one I'm seeing now doesn't seem to be close to handing it over to me either.
|
|
#8
Nov 03, 2014, 09:47 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Ok it took me a moment but I got it now. Something perfect, without flaw, may be aesthetically pleasing but it has no soul, no character, no scars that individualize it.
I am human, flawed, scarred and mended many times over. I have character and soul not in spite of, but because of, the trials I have overcome. I had never heard of this type of art, and I can't say that therapy is filling in all my cracks with gold, but I am growing and becoming more whole due to self-examination. |
|
#9
Nov 03, 2014, 10:00 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I don't know about broken either. But I think that some people and some terrible experiences kept me from really being able to see the person that is there. Maybe rearranging things in a new way helps us to see what was there all all along.
__________________
Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you She tied you to a kitchen chair She broke your throne, and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah --leonard cohen |
|
#10
Nov 03, 2014, 10:47 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I'm very familiar with this idea in art, but don't feel it as a metaphor for me or my therapy. Rather than broken, I always felt more like I was never allowed to take shape in the first place. More a therapy process to discover what form the clay was meant to take.
|
| Depletion, JaneC, ruiner
|
|
#11
Nov 03, 2014, 10:54 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
| Favorite Jeans, Freewilled, Middlemarcher, RedSun
|
|
#12
Nov 03, 2014, 11:04 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I love your analogy! Yes, I feel broken. And yes, my t is helping put me back together with a delicate hand and kind heart, filling in the gaps with a solid and beautiful material. My family broke me, but my t is helping mend me - weaving a strong foundation of gold into my make up, providing me with a new beginning.
|
|
#13
Nov 03, 2014, 11:19 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
I wouldn't call that a quick patch up. That's a lot of duct tape right there.  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
__________________
'... At poor peace I sing To you strangers (though song Is a burning and crested act, The fire of birds in The world's turning wood, For my sawn, splay sounds,) ...' Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue |
|
#14
Nov 04, 2014, 12:51 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
|
| StressedMess
|
| Reply |
This is an old thread. You probably should not post your reply to it, as the original poster is unlikely to see it.|
|
My Support Forums is the online community that was originally begun as the Psych Central Forums in 2001. It now runs as an independent self-help support group community for mental health, personality, and psychological issues and is overseen by a group of dedicated, caring volunteers from around the world.
Linear Mode
