LeiaFlower
Confident
What are the benefits of telling your therapist about nightmares? A while back I had various nightmares, each worse than the last. Three were about my therapist abusing me, with worse involving molestation. Even though I know I couldn’t control them, there’s still shame surrounding them. I tried to forget about them, and I can finally look at my therapist with physically flinching. However, I still can’t go in her office. I know it wasn’t real, that my therapist will never do those things, but the fear is still there. I made it a goal to talk about at least the fear about being in the room. But a part of me wants to lie about her being the abuser in the dream. I just don’t want her to be upset with me or think I’m disgusting for thinking she’ll do that to me. Or at least hide the details on what happened. Is there a benefit to telling my therapist everything that happened in the nightmares?