Getting Evaluated

Saw the therapist today! Talked a bit about stuff I want to work on. I liked her a lot, and her method is to do stuff other than just talk, like art therapy and sandplay. I've never done it before, and I do think that it'll help in connecting with my emotions more.

I was a bit taken aback, but in a good way. She said that she noticed trauma symptomology already -- something that no other therapist has ever acknowledged. Granted, I don't present as having terrible PTSD, but I'm glad she can see the subtler effects of less outward and direct trauma. It was very validating, and it'll be helpful in trust building to know that she doesn't disbelieve me. I didn't talk about dissociation directly, but I mentioned that I have a tendency to be spacey and kinda detached. I'll bring up stuff like the head-voices later, though they've been very quiet lately.

It's weird -- I have a complete recall of the session, but it did NOT feel like an hour. Cognitively, I knew it had been an hour, and we even went over by ten minutes, but it sure didn't feel like one. Again, though, it's not like there are gaps in my memory of it. I've heard of something called 'time dilation', however, in my research on hypnosis. It's where someone is in trance and perceives a long amount of time to be much shorter. That describes my experiences with time very well, I think. I don't lose it as much as it just seems to fast forward a bit.

I'm going in for group art therapy tomorrow, then starting intensive outpatient therapy with her the week after next, when our schedules work better. I'll continue updating if people still want to hear about my boring life, lol.

(OCD's been bad for the past few days. It really sucks, but I suspect that once I have other stuff on my mind, it'll get less troublesome. That's how it usually works for me.)

nonchalant wrote:Saw the therapist today! Talked a bit about stuff I want to work on. I liked her a lot, and her method is to do stuff other than just talk, like art therapy and sandplay. I've never done it before, and I do think that it'll help in connecting with my emotions more.

I was a bit taken aback, but in a good way. She said that she noticed trauma symptomology already -- something that no other therapist has ever acknowledged. Granted, I don't present as having terrible PTSD, but I'm glad she can see the subtler effects of less outward and direct trauma. It was very validating, and it'll be helpful in trust building to know that she doesn't disbelieve me. I didn't talk about dissociation directly, but I mentioned that I have a tendency to be spacey and kinda detached. I'll bring up stuff like the head-voices later, though they've been very quiet lately.

It's weird -- I have a complete recall of the session, but it did NOT feel like an hour. Cognitively, I knew it had been an hour, and we even went over by ten minutes, but it sure didn't feel like one. Again, though, it's not like there are gaps in my memory of it. I've heard of something called 'time dilation', however, in my research on hypnosis. It's where someone is in trance and perceives a long amount of time to be much shorter. That describes my experiences with time very well, I think. I don't lose it as much as it just seems to fast forward a bit.

I'm going in for group art therapy tomorrow, then starting intensive outpatient therapy with her the week after next, when our schedules work better. I'll continue updating if people still want to hear about my boring life, lol.

(OCD's been bad for the past few days. It really sucks, but I suspect that once I have other stuff on my mind, it'll get less troublesome. That's how it usually works for me.)

Glad it's working out well for you . I get that time thing alot, Sometimes an hour goes by in fifteen minutes, sometimes it goes by in two hours. (Although in my case this may be and adhd thing) Happy to hear the new therapist is good .