How much do you actually tell your therapist?

I've never felt comfortable talking about my body with anyone before this one. Especially because she's really pretty and dresses really nicely. But she has been the most understanding (maybe because she has spent most of her career working in the BPD program?) and she even said she has a lot of times when she feels self-conscious about her body, especially that she's tall. It was really embarassing to talk about at first but it's easier than I thought it woukd be now, and I'm glad I did because it's such a huge part of my self-hatred. You can do it and it will be worth it. Promise. Last Feb when I first started working with her (I was seeing an intern under her at the hospital when I first met her, abt a year and a half ago), I was 300 lbs and just despised my body so much, but it's getting better. It can.

I voted that I've told my therapist everything and I have told him my feelings about everything, but I have deep shame about a couple of things that we've never really explored or talked about in depth. I imagine we will eventually.

I said "Only what I think is relevant," but over the past 4 years, I've opened up about most things. Some stuff I kept inside for a long time, thinking they were in the past and not important. But other things eventually made me realize that some of those things from the past are having an effect on the present. So I opened up about some things that I had repressed. It was painful and difficult, but it ultimately helped me figure some stuff out.

We talk about everything. We never run out of things to say.

I told Madame T absolutely everything.
But these days I tell my Ts only what I think is relevant.

I voted "everything." Or, more accurately, I tell her everything that will fit in our one hour a week. There is nothing that I intentionallu hide from her; no skeletons in the closet. I do prioritize what I think is relevant-- leave out what I had for breakfast, what time I walked the dog, etc. I try to get in all of the important stuff, past and present.

I would not say I hide anything either. I just don't tell her-I am perfectly willing to tell her I won't and why.

I talk about what has happened in my life that has effected me the most and stuff that is relevant.

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I said "everything" because there is no part of me that in any way "filters" what comes out in my therapy sessions. Of course we're not talking about "everything" in the literal sense, as it is impossible to tell any one person every little thing that goes on in your life, but yeah… I tell both my therapists more or less everything. (Okay, so I don't tell my university therapist about my transference, but that's pretty much the only thing I don't talk to her about. )

Oh lordy apparently everything now i told her i think her hands are beautiful yest. Gah!

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I only see her every 4-8 weeks at this point so I stick the relevent stuff. But what I think is "relevent" can change from one visit to the next.