How does your t deal with paranoid thoughts?

[Herenthere]

My T kept on saying this is your imagination...things like that dont happen...wont happen...it just does not.

At the very end, i connected the dots and realized its a ptsd symptom...i got triggered by what happened several years ago and was having these paranoid thoughts related to the incident. My T apologized, saying he was not aware of this incident.
Even back then my paranoid thoughts didnt come true.
This week, my paranoid thoughts had paralyzed me for several days. They were very real to me. It didnt help my T continuously saying its ur imagination. These things dont happen.

I m not sure how i expected my T to react after listening to me. My thoughts were a bit bizzare. Out there. Delusional even.
Maybe more gentleness. More of i can see why u would feel this way. Lets break it down and analyze how likely it is that this will happen.

Plz share how ur t helps you with these thoughts?

 

[Crow]

I don't think my T would ever tell me something would not happen. Way back I'd think people were following me on the interstate, or on the subway or that the weirdest things were conspiring against me. Even today I have fears on home intruders. But T never said something, no matter how extreme, would not happen. She would listen, mirror back and we'd focus on my physical reactions. Some how in that process, my rational mind would come back online and I'd see that even though the feelings were SOOO intense, most likely I was safe. I think her discounting my thoughts would have sent me into a downward spiral. I was not believed for the majority of my life so her honoring those thoughts and feelings made all the difference to me being able to get a bit more healthy. Hope that makes sense a little.