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| lobstershack |
Posted - 10/29/2005 : 07:59:37
I started psychotherapy with one of Sarno's doctors yesterday. I truly enjoy speaking with her and feel quite comfortable. But I noticed that after my session, the rest of the day I was left feeling very anxious and depressed: a heavy feeling that I had never experienced prior with any of my other therapists. Has anyone felt this way directly or shortly after commencing psychotherapy? Thanks.
Seth |
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| wrldtrv |
Posted - 11/01/2005 : 22:38:32
Yes, Seth. I've had the same experience several times. Same thing; good session, good connection, but later, feeling worse. Why? I don't know, but maybe the session stirred up uncomfortable feelings. |
| lobstershack |
Posted - 10/30/2005 : 17:01:43
Thanks all. It's nice to know the feelings I described are in fact part and parcel with the psychotherapeutic process. I'll keep everyone posted.
Good night.
Seth |
| n/a |
Posted - 10/30/2005 : 02:30:31
Yes, Seth, I recognise what you describe. Although my therapist wasn't one familiar with TMS she was a firm advocate of psychotherapy as a treatment for psychosomatic illneses.
I found myself telling her things that I hadn't even allowed my brain to bring to the surface, things that I was not aware I felt until she started working with me. At first it did seem that the sessions were making my anxiety worse. In fact, when I mentioned to my doctor that I was beginning psychotherapy, he said that he didn't think it was a good idea. 'Let sleeping dogs lie,' was what he said. Thank goodness I didn't listen to him.
As time went one, though, I noticed that after the sessions I remember feeling a very strange mixture of peace and high emotion - a paradox, I know, but that's the best way to describe it. I just knew that I was opening up; to myself for the first time in my life and that I was no longer a prisoner to physical pain and irrational anxiety.
You know that song by Luther Vandross, 'Dance with my Father?' I was driving home from a psychotherapy session one time and it came on the radio, the first time I'd heard it and I just broke down - not just a few tears - complete meltdown - I had to park the car until I calmed down. The release was amazing. My whole body felt relaxed and warm. That was a new feeling for me.
Stick with it, Seth, and after the sessions observe your feelings - observe them objectively and note what they are mentally (you could write about it, I didn't, but I can see how it might be helpful) and watch how they change over time.
Very best wishes
Anne |
| ssjs |
Posted - 10/29/2005 : 11:27:48
I too went to a Sarno therapist in NYC, and a couple of weeks into it, as I was becoming amazed at how different my life was than what I had thought, I had the very worst pain in my back that a person could possibly experience, including paralisis of my foot, pain shooting up and down my leg, and spasm after spasm.
I had a bat mitzvah to go to the next day, and the therapist was away, and I was crying and crying and wondering if I had been set up, and I called Dr. Sarno, who wasn't there, and his secretary told me that I shouldn't assume that I wouldn't be able to make the party.
HA! I thought that was CRAZY talk!
But guess what! I WAS OK the NEXT day! And danced the day away!
And since then (almost 20 years) I have been pain free.
WOW!
Don't give up! YOU WILL BE FINE!
Sandy |
| windy |
Posted - 10/29/2005 : 08:19:24
Seth,
This sounds very exciting. Emotions are already welling up. Now you won't have to hurt physically 
Windy |
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