From someone who's successfully used therapy to recover from drugs, process trauma, unpack relationship baggage, get re-married, and not be so depressed
Thank you for sharing. I just had my first session of therapy yesterday. I’ll be looking at this again to think if we connected.
Your openness about therapy got me started and DAMN that first session was so hard and good when I was able to just vomit my challenges in my marriage and have someone hear me and also help my define what I was experiencing. So many years and emotions came out I didn’t know I was repressing.
I’ve been to therapists of one kind or another since I was 14 years old. My dad would pick me up from the therapist’s office and say, “How did it go? Do you think you need to go back?” Finally, one day I was just like, “Yeah, sure, everything is great.” 🙄 My dad meant well, but he has never been one to dwell on things… and has never understood depression - even when it happened to him after heart surgery. They made him take an antidepressant and it was this huge secret. NO ONE was to know! My sister and I both asked him if he thought she and I should be ashamed that we take medication… and he was slightly cowed, but said it’s not the same. 🤷♀️ Different generation. Anyway, therapy has changed my life and saved my life, so I am always a champion of going for it. All of the modalities serve their purposes. Hypnotherapy was incredibly healing for me. My hypnotherapist was the best.
Oh, remember when I was telling you about the flash technique that’s a companion to EMDR? It’s this: https://flashtechnique.com/wp/
I completely agree with these, although I was forced into your last point against my will. I'd been seeing my therapist for over 15 years, and then she had the nerve to retire! (mind you, she was in her late 60s and had been a therapist for 40 years...I believe she was entitled to a break!). Anyway, i decided not to find a new therapist right away, and I found that I was able to lean on what we had discussed over the years. When I decided to go back to therapy, it took me a couple of tries, but I now have someone I connect with.
Thank you for sharing. I just had my first session of therapy yesterday. I’ll be looking at this again to think if we connected.
Your openness about therapy got me started and DAMN that first session was so hard and good when I was able to just vomit my challenges in my marriage and have someone hear me and also help my define what I was experiencing. So many years and emotions came out I didn’t know I was repressing.
Thank you Melissa!
I’ve been to therapists of one kind or another since I was 14 years old. My dad would pick me up from the therapist’s office and say, “How did it go? Do you think you need to go back?” Finally, one day I was just like, “Yeah, sure, everything is great.” 🙄 My dad meant well, but he has never been one to dwell on things… and has never understood depression - even when it happened to him after heart surgery. They made him take an antidepressant and it was this huge secret. NO ONE was to know! My sister and I both asked him if he thought she and I should be ashamed that we take medication… and he was slightly cowed, but said it’s not the same. 🤷♀️ Different generation. Anyway, therapy has changed my life and saved my life, so I am always a champion of going for it. All of the modalities serve their purposes. Hypnotherapy was incredibly healing for me. My hypnotherapist was the best.
Oh, remember when I was telling you about the flash technique that’s a companion to EMDR? It’s this: https://flashtechnique.com/wp/
Very interesting.
Also, I’ve worked with Karena and done this several times. She’s wonderful. https://helloinnerlight.com
I completely agree with these, although I was forced into your last point against my will. I'd been seeing my therapist for over 15 years, and then she had the nerve to retire! (mind you, she was in her late 60s and had been a therapist for 40 years...I believe she was entitled to a break!). Anyway, i decided not to find a new therapist right away, and I found that I was able to lean on what we had discussed over the years. When I decided to go back to therapy, it took me a couple of tries, but I now have someone I connect with.