Categories: cant-stop-the-feline, news-from-depressionland
Tags: therapy, cat attack
Date: 29 October 2009 17:06:10
I am still keeping all the charts imposed on me by the Terribly Tenacious Therapist, although last week I did tear one up because of cat attack. It's a long story, but basically I was clearing out a file, which is one of my therapy tasks, and doing it on the floor which is the only sensible way. However the cat, who is paper-obsessed and who has already killed my printer, took this as an invitation to a fight, with the result that I burst into tears and swore I would make the next therapy appointment the last one. I also had to explain to the psych this week that I really wasn't self-harming, those long scratches on my arm really were of feline origin.
Anyway I calmed down and started a new chart the next day and didn't tell the therapist I was leaving. I think she is actually highlighting some useful things, I just wish it wasn't all such hard work. I can do the 'expose all the past trauma again' thing standing on my head - been there, done that so many times - but I have to say I feel like drawing a line at so much homework (most of which does in fact involve drawing lines on paper).