Posted by Dinah on July 21, 2005, at 19:11:57
My therapist and I are having a disagreement.
He thinks there are things like my forgetting sleeps. And what I call my mind smoothing out where I forget what I was saying mid sentence (yesterday it took several attempts before I was able to get from start to finish of what I was saying before I forgot). And the stabbing headaches that I get when I try to say something I'm not supposed to say. And a few other things along those lines.
Anyway, he thinks those must be controlled by some level of consciousness, with a will. While I think they can just be automatic, or maybe unconscious, but that no separate will needs to be connected.
He wants me to consider it, but I think there's no need to go down that path. It's just a set of circuit breakers.
Is it ever beneficial to even consider something like that, if you really know it's not true? He thinks if I know it's not true, it can't hurt to consider it. But I'm afraid of iatrogenic whatever. I think I spelled that wrong.
On the other hand, I'm not very suggestible. He's thought since the beginning that there must be sexual abuse in my past, and I've been adamant that there hasn't been.
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