My therapy journey, recovering from Borderline Personality Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I write for welldoing.org , for Planet Mindful magazine, and for Muse Magazine Australia, under the name Clara Bridges. Listed in Top Ten Resources for BPD in 2016 by goodtherapy.org.
…and when I took out a coin to pay the parking metre just before my last therapy session – having worried all the way there about the fact I hadn’t planned what I was going to talk about – it said this:
That’s excellent. Sometimes I find the unprepared session can be the most powerful, but I still like to get my 50mins worth with a prioritised agenda π
Sometimes I think it might be fun and instructive (if rather brain-bending and emotion-twisting) to swap therapists with other bloggers/friends I know, for a session or two! I feel I get to know (and sometimes envy!) people’s therapists a little bit, and sometimes I could definitely do with a therapist who fills up my silences! However, I can see that if it happened all the time, it might become just as difficult as the opposite, and having a therapist who leaves silences much of the time!
February 18, 2015 at 8:23 am
I like that!
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February 18, 2015 at 8:26 am
Thank you π
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February 18, 2015 at 8:28 pm
Cool. Is that an English coin?
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February 18, 2015 at 11:11 pm
Indeed it is π It was brought out to celebrate the centenary of the scouting movement, whose motto is ‘be prepared’…..
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February 19, 2015 at 4:08 pm
That’s excellent. Sometimes I find the unprepared session can be the most powerful, but I still like to get my 50mins worth with a prioritised agenda π
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February 19, 2015 at 4:21 pm
I’m on my way now and I’m really worried I don’t have enough on my agenda and there will be lots of awful silences!
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February 19, 2015 at 4:40 pm
No chance of silences with my therapist!
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February 20, 2015 at 11:00 pm
Sometimes I think it might be fun and instructive (if rather brain-bending and emotion-twisting) to swap therapists with other bloggers/friends I know, for a session or two! I feel I get to know (and sometimes envy!) people’s therapists a little bit, and sometimes I could definitely do with a therapist who fills up my silences! However, I can see that if it happened all the time, it might become just as difficult as the opposite, and having a therapist who leaves silences much of the time!
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