I had my first of five sessions today. I was nervous; wasn't sure how they would begin. As it turned out, I talked A LOT! I think today I needed to offload what had happened and what had been said to me in the past four months, with links to past events too. So much to say, so little time!
I came out of the meeting feeling okay. I reflected in the car about the session and came to the conclusion that my workload, the pressure my boss was putting me under as well as DH not being supportive with my job or home life, mainly caring for our son, was contributing to my stress. In fact, the workload could be resolved quite easily if DH was supportive of me going part time but DH is not supportive of this.
But later on today, I felt as though I was going back to square one. In the session I was asked to grade on a scale of 1-10 various points in my 'illness'. Lowest was a 3 - when I first went off sick and again two weeks ago when the GP signed me off for a further six weeks - and the highest was 7 which was achieved in the past two weeks because I did virtually nothing except sit on my backside at home!!! Now I feel like a 4.
Is it normal to feel so low and down after a counselling session? i can't see how after five sessions that things would be better. How exactly does this work? I understand the counsellor won't tell me what to do or take sides with me etc, etc.
How is anyone stronger after only this amount of sessions?
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Does counselling really work?
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Ridingthestorm · 18/12/2014 21:24
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