Since the second time I saw my T I have experienced a huge amount of emotion - I hadn't realized that I had been shut off to emotion since I was a young child. I experience it mainly as physical sensations in my gut and bones and tissues, it has often been an overpowering unpleasant sensation, sometimes feels more pleasant. I started seeing my T in the spring. In the summer when we had a break the feelings subsided but came back a few days before I saw my T again.

I'm really curious as to whether others have the same or a different experience? I see it as a positive thing, but a bit difficult too. It's hard to label the emotion but sometimes there is anger and anxiety mixed in and maybe a tiny touch of happiness is developing too. I'm a bit scared.

[Petra5ed]

Yes, when I started I was really shut off, and now I'm more in tune with my emotions. I think I've always suffered from them, but now I identify and label them better as opposed to pretending they aren't happening.

[IndestructibleGirl]

I experience them in the body too. It can be bloody scary. Yesterday, at one stage, I had a bizarre sensation that every cell in my body was flinching (and I got a paranoid mental image of swathes of cells dying at that very moment, which I hope was not the case..) and that it was a sort of aftermath of being beaten up. Except, of course, I hadn't just been beaten up

[HazelGirl]

Yes, very much so. Not so much in my body, but definitely stronger and more varied.

[stopdog]

No. But it is not what I seek from therapy and I would be most displeased if it did occur.

[Tongalee]

Ha! Yeah I cry a lot more

[MrPink182]

Honestly, its hard to tell. I went in for social anxiety in which I still very much have, but I think it calmed a bit.

[ThisWayOut]

I think I'm slowly learning to recognize emotions more and be more ok with having other than just the "safe" emotions. I still can't identify most of them at any given time, but I'm more apt to be able to try to figure them out or to put them on paper.
I used to be very blocked off to anything, very flat. But over the years I have started to allow myself to feel more. I still don't feel them in my body (or at least the connection to what I am feeling is still very confusing to me), but I'm learning VERY slowly... I think all the years of having to shut them off cemented the break in a way. I think the only thing I can identify in my body are anxiety or anger. Everything else is just a confused mess.

So it seems like everyone is experiencing something a bit different. For me it kind of feels that therapy has woken up my emotional life.

Stop Dog this was never my purpose in going to therapy and I told my T I wanted it to go away, she has encouraged me to accept it all. I felt that perhaps she should have warned me about it when I started, which now I write it sounds absurd, when it happened to me I assumed it happens to everyone in therapy.