Leaving therapy

[Sunflowermoon]

Hello all I hope I've made the right decision. I have been attending psychotherapy since summer last year and bringing up trauma from my childhood has been so hard. Its gotten to a point I'm struggling to cope in everyday life after the emotions stirred up in therapy. My therapist is lovely and as such hasn't pushed me but I'm just not able to deal with the trauma and then cope with a toddler who doesn't sleep and a handful 4 year old. So I made the decision today to stop I can't give to both right now.

Has anyone else ever quit therapy due to how life was effected outside of sessions?

Trauma sessions are SO hard afterwards so you have my sympathy OP. Did you tell your therapist how you were feeling? They should have suggested ways to help you get through it if so.

Hello my therapist did try to give me things to try I was struggling to put them in place though. I could envison stop once flooding I couldn't rate out of 100 what I was feeling. I just felt overwhelmed my therapist thinks I have undiagnosed bpd I think I have cptsd. I felt so awful last night like I'd failed everyone but today I feel better like I don't have the pressure now 🙃.

Thank you for reply

I had problems sleeping after therapy, and I would feel lousy for about 4 days afterwards.

Hey iamnotmad
Thank you for reply im sorry you found it tough also. Its such a hard journey to face own demons isn't it? I still feel sad I worked for a good while but family life became too much. my four year old is a challenge and I just wasn't coping in an emotional head space to be able to function in my mum role z