#therapy chronicles

[body-knows-best]

My therapist banned me from self-help books 😂

She says they put me into overdrive (agreed) and put too much nervous energy into healing, which actually doesn’t help heal and creates new problems. She also says she’s going to stop giving me stuff to do between sessions and asked me to relax instead… which is way more difficult.

[fritterlitter]

I wish fearing vulnerability made me compelling and enticing like it does in fiction. In real life it just makes me behave in a manner that benefits neither me nor the people around me

[fritterlitter]

Being able and willing to go to therapy now that I’m doing Generally Okay is very strange. I’ll come in and be like “here’s something that’s been stressing me out rn and some overall patterns I see in myself showing up because of that” and we talk about it and then halfway through the week I go “Hmm I wonder when I should bring up the Bad Times? That was so long ago…surely my current issues have nothing to do with the Bad Times”