[WrkNPrgress]

Does anyone else have this problem?

I've come to a point in therapy that I find myself rambling instead of talking. I don't think I was like this at first. I mean that I'll have an idea of what I want to talk about, then I get started and I'm distracted by several different thoughts mid-sentence. Sometimes I don't even get around too the original topic.

I'm embarrassed about it because I can see that my therapist is trying hard too follow patiently and I feel like I must be so frustrating to listen to. (It also annoys my partner.)

Sometimes I wish I could just keep a train of thought and relax.

[ScarletPimpernel]

I've never rambled, but I used to have problems going way to deep in thought in which I would start catastrophizing things. My T helped me by stopping my thought process and getting back to the original topic. Maybe that might help you? Or if you start the conversation, but your T directs it?

[ThisWayOut]

I have times I ramble. Mostly it's when I get into a pattern of explaining the thoughts behind the thoughts. Then I get lost on a tangent. Previous t's have let me ramble unless I got way off topic or I asked them to help me keep to one thought process.

[StressedMess]

Mine lets me ramble because that's how I work around to the point. I've had a few lightbulb moments in session this way. If the conversation gets steered I get lost and can't continue the thought process. Darn ADD, "I feel like this because - ooooh, a butterfly!"

I ramble all the time - it feels like rambling to me, but I have a hunch perhaps what I perceive as "rambling" my t sees as thinking out loud, and she goes with it, is very good at listening and picking up on things that I sometimes don't even remember thinking were important. I too have had lightbulb moments more than once during my rambling. Maybe that's one reason why I feel like therapy is such a gift to myself - having someone actually LISTEN to me the way she does, it's priceless. I haven't had anyone listen to me that way since I was 15 and that was a LONG time ago!

[Tongalee]

I tend to ramble out of a felt necessity. It always seems to happen when I know my therapist wants to discuss something that is terrifying to talk about or something I just would rather skip. She someone's will let it happen, but other times she will bring it to my awareness and ask me what I'm gaining in doing so. I engender one time I started to talk about anything and everything I could think of to use up time. When I hit a point where I had nothing else I could say I started to tear up and was really straining to think of something. My therapist just looked at me with her empathy face and asked me if it would have been less stressful for me to have just said that I was nervous about the topic of today's session. She reminded me that I was on control and if I wasn't ready our wanting to discuss something than we wouldn't. I'm glad she reminds me of this occasionally, it feels nice to know that I have control in this situation where I never have before.

[WrkNPrgress]

Thanks everyone.
I guess I'm just feeling self-conscious and probably filtering this through some self-loathing filter.

[Ford Puma]

rambling is practically my trademark. T takes no notice of it.

[granite1]

I tend to not talk and if I do I would say that the last thing I usually will do is ramble . BUT last session it seems all I did was ramble on and on from one thing to the next I just kept moving my mouth. finely I just looked at her and said I feel I am just rambling on and saying nothing . she said that sometimes just saying what just comes to mind is a good thing and that what I was saying was important. so I just kept on with it .it lead to talking about some things I would not have actually talked about

I would love to be able to ramble! Unfortunately i dont say much and she has to prompt me and ask questions.