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Background context - I've told my therapist a lot (via email and then some in person) about experiences I had as a kid.
She says I was sexually and emotionally abused, publicly humiliated, and witnessed domestic violence (my parents were never physical with each other!) as a kid.
I can't seem to "see" that. I am years into therapy and still can't seem to see it.
I think if she's right, some part of me should be able to recognize it. She thinks it became so normalized and part of the work is teaching me that it was abuse. I'm afraid to teach myself something "wrong". She reminds me that I have received confirmation of some of the things that happened. I just end up saying, "Yeah."
How did you "see" it? Did you at some point just decide to believe your T's (or someone else's) perspective over your own? Did you integrate the other person's perspective with yours? Did it take a while?
She says I was sexually and emotionally abused, publicly humiliated, and witnessed domestic violence (my parents were never physical with each other!) as a kid.
I can't seem to "see" that. I am years into therapy and still can't seem to see it.
I think if she's right, some part of me should be able to recognize it. She thinks it became so normalized and part of the work is teaching me that it was abuse. I'm afraid to teach myself something "wrong". She reminds me that I have received confirmation of some of the things that happened. I just end up saying, "Yeah."
How did you "see" it? Did you at some point just decide to believe your T's (or someone else's) perspective over your own? Did you integrate the other person's perspective with yours? Did it take a while?