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Added 2021-12-18 18:00:56 +0000 UTCCome hangout as I go through your previously sent in questions!! xoxo
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Thanks for taking the time to answer my question Kati. I wasnt there but just watching the replay now. Thankyou.
Claire
2021-12-19 01:54:45 +0000 UTCQ1. 09.58 - My question this month is about bridge statements. I try to make them work but I keep going back to the negative thoughts. What am I doing wrong? Q2. 16.03 - My question is what exactly is exposure therapy, and how does it look in a therapy session? Is it a specific skill set that the therapist has acquired or studied in school to work with their clients? Q3. 26.10 - I hope it’s ok to ask a question without much detail. Something happened to me when I was young and I get flashbacks from it. I know therapists don’t make fun of you when you tell them something that upsets you. But still seems I’m not able to ask for help and I don’t want to have a third set of nightmares and flashbacks, it’s just too much. Do you have any advice? Q4. 31.07 - Please can you try and explain the difference between seeking vengance or just acting out of anger because someone hurt you and standing up for myself? Q5. 43.25 - I have tried to highlight how I am affected by stress to overwhelm and how they link to difficult triggers. I don't recognise or connect to myself when triggered which is causing a barrier to applying the skills that I am working on that are working and effective most of the time. Q6. 52.08 - Does my background sound like bipolar symptoms and how do I bring this up within therapy? Q7. 59.58 - Lately I've been having a lot of anxiety about bad things happening to the people I love. I don't know why this is suddenly happening to me and I would love to make it stop. Please could you give me any advice? Q8. 1.06.26 - I am currently experiencing sexual dysfunction. Realistically, if I'm not even able to masturbate for eight months, there's no way that I'd ever be able to have sex with anyone? Q9. 1.11.35 - Back in March my Mum was diagnosed with Leukaemia was quickly put in hospital to start treatment. I took time off work to go to the hospital, help my Dad, and to check up on my 90 year old uncle. Now , I wonder if Im getting too freaked out by the cleaning. Where is the point where being careful becomes a bit too much?If that makes sense? Q10. 1.19.34 - My question is; given my history with C-PTSD and AvPD, do you have any advice for starting a relationship and more specifically, a first relationship in over 10yrs and my first since coming to terms and starting to deal with my past sexual abuse? Q11. 1.26.17 - Can you speak a bit about triangulation in regards to divorced parents? Q12. 1.31.34 - I have a snake phobia, to the point that if I see a picture of a snake while scrolling Facebook, that can be enough to give me a terrible nightmare that night. I believe your brain uses the things you have decided are metaphors in dreams going forward, so there are not really universal dream images, probably - buuuuuut like have you heard of this before? Kind of hoping the snake phobia goes away because I super don’t wanna do snake exposure therapy. Q13. 1.34.28 - My eating disorder is raging because I have to run TPN every day plus I’m expected to add more calories orally. I have no way to manipulate anything. How do people live life this way? . Q14. 1.42.50 - This has been a difficult school year to say the least. How do I not let the sad things happening in my student’s lives affect me? Q15. 1.52.16 - I already talked about my intense fear of meeting my therapist outside of sessions and the heavy grief that comes along with having to end therapy and therefore "losing" her soon. We are working on this "accepting that she's a human being"-thing. I had a very vivid and scary dream in which she was super boundary crossing. How can I get back to feeling more safe with her? How can I show the alerted parts inside of me that she hasn't done anything and that these terrible things only happened in my dreams? I feel a bit lost and robbed of the opportunity to finally get better and get a more peaceful and stable therapeutic relationship with her.
Katie K
2021-12-18 20:11:25 +0000 UTC
