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Dear Robo, Thank you for your thoughtful reply. The disassociation thing is a very new concept to me as well. I agree it can be so weird. I am glad you are talking about it though. It took me months to get to a place where I even recognized it might be happening. Just recognizing it has...

Dear all, thank you so much for your insight and encouragement. I met with my therapist today. I feel confident we are in a good place. In fact...it might be the best I have felt about progress in any session thus far. It can be a very freeing thing to take a leap and trust someone else...

Dear @DaisyB I am so sorry you are going through this difficult time. This is a good place to begin. I would strongly encourage you to talk to someone about what you are experiencing. Whether it be a General Practitioner a Psychologist, Mental Health Counselor or Psychiatrist. As a sufferer...

@Gia1019 I appreciate your thoughtfulness. During this very difficult time I have thought about a some type of contract...I will bring it up...I do think it would be helpful for me...and I hope for my therapist. Maybe even to help me in the mean time...I will type one up...this is good...

Dear @Suzetig thank you for your thoughtful reply. All of you have been so helpful. I feel empowered by your empathy and advice. It is helpful to me to hear you all talk about the "therapeutic alliance" and "ruptures" in that relationship. This is all very new language for me. I feel...

@joeylittle thank you for your helpful reply and insight. Thank you for reminding me it is a working relationship. There have been some stumbling blocks (for me) in building the 'therapeutic alliance.' Primarily in that...we have a dual relationship. I serve in a capacity in our community...

You're right...I do deserve a space to go over and over and over it again until I feel like it is resolved...besides...I'm paying for his time.

@Gia1019 thank you for your reply...when you say "some of your parts," are you referring to disassociation? I am still trying to figure all of this out. I definitely think my confident adult (the part of me that puts on the happy face and pretends really well) trusts him...but lately I have...

@NightSky thank you for your words of encouragement. I can feel myself slipping into my childhood/adolescent emotional state over the whole thing. I feel incredibly guilty about it. Am trying to decide now if its worth bringing up again or if I should just leave without saying anything. I'm...

@NightSky...it did cause me to feel a great deal of shame...and I feel even more shame that it is still bothering me. and now I feel overwhelmed with hopelessness.

About 5 weeks ago my therapist got really frustrated with me and though he had vowed to not give up on me...(an attempt I think to build trust as I suffer from abandonment issues) he dropped me like a hot potato and refused to refer me to another therapist. He told me it was "my work to do and...

Dear @DiamondBug I can relate to your feelings of difficulty struggling between sessions with your therapist. I recently went on vacation and went two weeks without a visit to the therapist and it was excruciating...and terrifying beforehand knowing it was going to be that long. I think it is...

Did anyone else start having crazy and vivid dreams when they started on SNRIs? I have been having the most vivid and detailed dreams that are absurd, oddly terrifying and yet so clear I feel like they are trying to tell me something. Some of them have been suicide dreams (me covered in blood...

@7Cs thank you for your reply. This is very helpful. I think I may be struggling with something similar. Were you aware at the time "other parts" were showing up or did you recognize it later? I can particularly identify with the childlike tendencies and the emotional numbing out. I have...

@7Cs can you tell me a little bit more about the disassociation you experienced with your therapist? I think I may be dealing with some sort of disassociation as well.