Posted by Dinah on November 5, 2008, at 8:49:18
In reply to Re: I Wonder if Anyone Else Has Felt Like This » Dinah, posted by sassyfrancesca on November 5, 2008, at 8:14:16
> If I tell him before I absolutely have to, it will cause me MORE anxiety; either way the outcome will be the same.
Outcome isn't all that's at stake. Reaction to outcome, and preparation for outcome, is at least as important. That's what therapy helps us with. Therapy can't change the outcome in any number of things. It just helps us deal with it.
Would you mind saying more about the anxiety? I don't want to press you if you don't wish to, but I don't really understand. I'd feel enormously anxious to keep a secret from my therapist. Even those things I swear I'll never say to him generally pop out of my mouth because any secret looms so large in my brain. Especially one that involves him. I don't know your therapist of course. But I know mine would be pretty annoyed with me, despite the fact that he keeps things from me that would involve the continuation of therapy.
So I'm not really sure how telling him would involve more anxiety rather than shared anxiety?
I don't mean to bother you with this of course. And you can feel free to ignore my post.
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