Posted by Dinah on November 15, 2008, at 13:40:24
In reply to Is this another way therapy rewires brains?, posted by lucie lu on November 15, 2008, at 12:34:49
That so sounds like me!!!
In the early days I drove my therapist crazy because he'd give me an assignment to write down my emotions during the day, and all of them came back "ok" or "upset". He'd argue with me that "ok" wasn't an emotion! He gave me that chart they gave kids with simple faces and feeling words. Bah.
Then, when we finally did access the part of me that does feel, the vocabulary just wasn't there. I would say "I feel sort of periwinkle today." or "Red with black flashes" or "Spring green with a lot of red and black all swirled". I spent hours making a color chart for him, so that we could put the colors to feeling words.
Or I'd see my feelings in terms of movement. Swirls or recoils or bubbles.
Or I'd personify the feelings. The stalking panther, the frolicking fawn.
My therapist isn't all that comfortable with whimsy, I don't think. It drove him nuts.
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