Hi. I spent some weeks a few years ago talking to a psychotherapist. I was suffering from panic attacks and gad at the time. After the first session I thought "great, this is going to really help me" but then most of my other sessions I came away feeling quite upset and a pressure of anxiety and tension, like a physical sensation afterwards. I felt as though she was listening to me and telling me that "good grief, that's terrible" about everybody else in my life, how they were all at fault. She said I should have more sessions but I stopped because it was too expensive and I felt so bad afterwards.
I liked the therapist as a person, but felt at the time I needed first aid iyswim for my panic attacks not sudden overturning of thoughts about what I thought were good family relationships. It wasn't a gentle process at all.
I just wondered, how have other people found therapy like this? Is it a necessary part of the process to feel so terrible after sessions? How do others feel? How do you know if it's helpful to you?
Btw I found group sessions and self help successful for me.
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Talking to professional therapist - always painful?
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tobee · 12/06/2015 18:40
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