Posted by Tamar on March 11, 2005, at 16:11:02
In reply to Resurfacing of old hurts, posted by pinkeye on March 11, 2005, at 13:55:32
That sounds like hard and painful work. It's so painful to feel the anger resurfacing when you thought you'd dealt with it and put it away.I wonder, though, whether you hadn't dealt with it as effectively as you thought you had. Maybe that's why your T wants to explore it again, so you can deal with the anger that's hidden.
Or maybe it's coming back because of other things in your life. That's happened to me before: I thought I'd dealt with some of the horrible stuff and everything was fine for a while and then it all came back when I had a baby because of the changes in my life.
I imagine your T has good reasons to ask you to rake over your childhood again, even though it feels so bad. Did she tell you her reasons, and did you agree with her?
I hope you begin to feel better soon.
Tamar
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