First therapy session next week!

kuhtreen

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I'm very nervous. If I can't even talk to strangers about NORMAL stuff, how can I share my deepest emotions with one?!?
As always, I keep trying to predict what's gonna happen and I keep trying to plan everything out. I think about the possible questions she'll ask me and the exact thing that I'll say. :-/ I can't believe I'm even taking this step. Okay I have to stop thinking about it now before I psyche myself out even more!
 

Videotape

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kuhtreen! i remember you. i just finished an 8 week program where i went to a session once per week. it was awesome. you will find it easier than you think. well done for taking the step.
 

kuhtreen

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kuhtreen! i remember you. i just finished an 8 week program where i went to a session once per week. it was awesome. you will find it easier than you think. well done for taking the step.

Oh that's a relief. :) I hope you're right!
I stopped coming on here for a while because my computer kept getting infected by viruses and I thought that maybe it was from this site. But I figured out it was from something else, so now I can start posting again. Yay!
 

recluse

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It will be ok. I find it easier to talk about stuff with a stranger, and therapists are trained to do this.
 

pandamonium77

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I was TERRIFIED to go in at first, because i don't like meeting new people... let alone telling them everything that goes on in my mind
But knowing that it's a safe environment, where he can NOT tell anyone *not that i thought he would* and won't look at you like a crazy person and judge you makes it a lot easier
Good luck, don't hold anything back... it'll only make things worse
 

kuhtreen

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So, I went today. It went okay, pretty much exactly how I imagined it. I have this problem where everytime I talk about my emotions I start bawling uncontrollably!! I have so much emotion bottled up that it all wants to rush out at once given the chance. So, I definitely cried. But I'm glad I did because it's important to be vulnerable and open right now so that I can start healing. We talked about doing EMDR. Has anyone tried this??
I was so nervous at first...my voice was a little shaky. But once I started crying I was like, "what the heck, I'm already letting it all out" and after that it wasn't so bad.
 

Videotape

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that's good! yeah, let yourself cry otherwise you'll feel like you are hiding your emotions which would make things tougher. good on you for trying to get better too. keep it up!
 
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