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Old Feb 04, 2015, 06:18 PM
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my therapist knows that i struggle a lot with feeling guilty. I feel guilty for everything- irrationally guilty probably but i don't know how to stop.

today in therapy she asked me about something I didn't want to talk about (and she just asked me the same question last week) so I got upset about it. She thinks I was upset because she already asked me the same question and the rest of our session she kept saying "sorry did I ask you that already?" but I was actually just upset because I didn't want to talk about it. I realize she has tons of clients and I do not expect her to remember every detail of our sessions.

so now I feel so guilty! I want to apologize and tell her "no I don't expect you to remember everything about our sessions- please don't think that I do!" I can't stop thinking about it and feeling guilty. I dont see her again for a week so how do I handle feeling guilty? guilt just takes over my head and I can't get out of it.
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Old Feb 04, 2015, 06:38 PM
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I think guilt comes with the territory for many of us. I just told my T in an Email a little while ago I feel guilty because I think I take up too much of her time between sessions.
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Old Feb 04, 2015, 06:42 PM
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I think guilt comes with the territory for many of us. I just told my T in an Email a little while ago I feel guilty because I think I take up too much of her time between sessions.
what kind of response did you get? i'm tempted to email mine but i just feel even worse about that. I know she doesn't go home and keep thinking about things i said...she just moves on because i'm just part of the job. i'm the one who can't stop overthinking things.
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Old Feb 04, 2015, 08:50 PM
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Emailing to say you feel guilty emailing? I am missing something...

I think guilt is remedied by not repeating the same thing, but I don't think you have a single think to regret about your session today.
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Old Feb 05, 2015, 12:32 AM
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IDK, about the OPs guilt but for me no, the remedy is not in not repeating what I did because 100% of the time when I feel this guilt I did nothing wrong (yeah, I too get the "normal" guilt after messing stg up but I'm fine with it helps me to learn from my mistakes)
Form me, there are days when I'm guilty for the way I move, look, breathe... I guess it could be summon into for being alive? Just everything I do feels wrong, I feel like I should do more/be better/try harder yet nothing seems enough.
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Old Feb 05, 2015, 08:15 AM
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Is that guilt, though, or something else?
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Old Feb 05, 2015, 08:28 AM
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I am interpreting most of what is being discussed here (I think) as being shame instead of guilt. Shame about who you are vs. guilt over a particular action.
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Old Feb 05, 2015, 08:32 AM
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I would agree.

Shame is insidious.
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