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#1
Jul 22, 2020, 11:04 AM
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I’ve been so exhausted that I feel like I need a few weeks of a break from therapy before I go back. Being under so much stress now with the Covid pandemic makes it hard. It’s even more exhausting spending the entire session in a mask. It’s so distracting.
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Jul 22, 2020, 11:10 AM
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I actually find it’s quite common for the sessions where I really didn’t want to go to be some of the most powerful and productive. The past couple of weeks I’ve nearly cancelled and did not feel like talking at all when I got there as I was just so fed up of everything, but they turned out to be some of the most insightful and useful sessions I’ve had.
I’m beginning to realise for therapy to truly work you have to force yourself to turn up and do the work even when you don’t feel like it. |
| Elio
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 *Beth*, Elio, LonesomeTonight
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#3
Jul 22, 2020, 11:56 AM
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I let my T know either before the session or first thing in session that I don’t want to be there. Then we are able to adjust to what my current need is together.
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There’s been many a crooked path that has landed me here Tired, broken and wearing rags Wild eyed with fear -Blackmoores Night |
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Jul 22, 2020, 12:09 PM
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If I know I look like ****, or what I see hurts me..then I find it very hard to look in the mirror.
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Jul 23, 2020, 05:04 AM
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Are there any benefits of a short break? Like maybe 3-4 weeks off? Could it help with increased motivation? My T is pushing me hard and it’s causing me increased anxiety because I don’t have the energy that I feel he is expecting of me.
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Jul 23, 2020, 05:29 AM
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I don't know if there are benefits of breaks, especially if it is to avoid the hard stuff. The hard stuff is the only way through, I think.
This week I did not want to go the most I have ever not wanted to go. I thought I wasn't going to go right up til half an hour before hand, and then I nearly turned and walked away once I reached the door. It turned out that we had a massive breakthrough. A truly massive and totally unexpected one. And to think - I could have been sitting at home feeling worthless and hopeless instead. I think it is the hardest to go when the going gets hard... but that is also when it is most important. |
| LonesomeTonight, precaryous, zoiecat
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Jul 23, 2020, 06:33 AM
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I never found it useful to go when I did not want to do so. I found breaks quite useful
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Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. |
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Jul 23, 2020, 11:49 AM
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I almost always go when I don't feel like it and I am always happy I did. It seems like those sessions we were able to get deeper or something.
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Jul 31, 2020, 10:08 PM
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Thanks to everyone for the responses. It helped to motivate me to go this past week and I’m so glad that I did.
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| LonesomeTonight, Lostislost, SlumberKitty, Taylor27, zoiecat
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