New T - Session 2 of Intake, I’m Beat, Sleeping and Sleeping

She wanted me to start with my earliest memory, and at the end of the session, she concluded that we made it to age 17 and we’ll continue next time.

I came home from therapy and crashed a few hours, woke up, and a few hours later, I fell asleep on the couch.

Today, I woke up late, did a few things, and took a nap! I just woke up again.

I feel anxious. I guess it’s from intake for trauma therapy. It must be. Sigh. I’ve lost my whole weekend. I’m glad I didn’t try to do this during the work week.

Have you had this reaction?

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Mine started during a massage rather than in therapy, memories and trauma processing. Afterward, my body felt so drained and achy that I felt like I had the flu. I stayed bed for two days.

My t told me then (and since) that reaction is really normal.

I found my intake sessions with my latest t more exhausting than I remembered with previous t’s. He could tell it was hard on me so we stretched out our intake a few sessions. It helped to only have to spend 20 minutes of a few sessions doing intake. Maybe your t can slow it down into manageable pieces if you want to?

Oh, thank you SO MUCH for your replies WarmFuzzySocks and growlycat! I feel better knowing it’s not just me, and I would never think to ask to break it up into smaller sessions. That is such a good idea.

I’ll forgive myself for not getting to all my chores this weekend. I realize it can all wait.

oh yes, i have had therapy hangovers many times.

Yes therapy hangovers happen after talking about anything difficult.

I used to have it a lot in attachment therapy which mostly dealt with childhood trauma.

I often have therapy hangovers.

Thank you all for your replies! Therapy hangover—now I know.

I recovered my energy today, in time to go back to work <rolls eyes>