I would have put this in Mental Health, but figured I get more responses here. Sorry if it's inappropriate.
I have my first session of CBT tomorrow morning. I tried it before, about five years ago, and hated it - one session, trainee therapist, lots of crying, and going home feeling awful.
Should I have a list of things to talk about? It's easy to forget things or not express them properly at the first session. What did you do?
(A couple of things I have going on: dysfunctional history with mother; sadness and anger about father's death (related to mother); infertility; career meltdown; self-medication with alcohol; childhood homelessness / neglect / abandonment; self-sabotage / self-destructive tendencies).
I also wondered what you all thought about smacking, especially those of you who were smacked as children. When does 'childhood smacking' become 'violence', really? I think a large-ish proportion of people would say they were smacked as children, but a much smaller percentage would say they experienced 'violence' as children. What's the difference? Because I don't know what to call it. When my mother did it, I think of it as smacking, but when my uncle did it, it seems worse somehow.
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Advice for first CBT; also question about smacking
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merricat · 10/08/2015 21:20
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