Coping with therapy

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I am starting therapy this week, I know it's a good thing and I need to. But it's all I can think about constantly, going through possible conversations and ruminating. It is constant. I just can't distract my brain for long enough. I can't stop thinking about the therapist too.

How do I cope afterwards? I know it's going to be emotional opening up and I need to but how do I walk out and pull myself together to get on with the day?

This is a great thing to talk to a therapist about! You won’t know what it’s like to work with them till you begin,
ao it’s hard to make plans. But it’s okay to share with them that you’re thinking about what it might feel like after the session.

i always tell people I work with to not plan in anything for a bit of time straight after, and to do something they enjoy. ie go for a walk but don’t go back to work etc

I know definitely need a break after, I'm worried how I'll switch off and go back to normal life after that but you're right, I can ask!

I just can't stop obsessing about it. I feel like I'm going to get attached to the therapist as the only person asking me about me. Even if I am paying.

Is it a therapist or a counsellor? You should get attached to a therapist - that’s part of it (this isn’t the same with counselling). But over time you stop having the same attachement. That’s very normal.

A counsellor can be a therapist, and vice versa. They’re not necessarily different.

Yes that’s true. I teach on a bsc counselling course and I’m aware transference and projective identification etc isn’t taught there so in that set up the client - therapist relationship would be different.

A therapist. Ok, that's good to know thank you 🙂