Therapy 2020: Session 15

Date of session: 09/12/2020

Please be aware that some of the content may be triggering. Please take care 💚

In this session we discussed my self harm. It’s the barrier to me gettting proper trauma therapy. I had a decision to make whether to just carry on self harming and forfeit trauma work or give giving up a go.

Before the session I’d tried to write down some questions and thoughts linked to this. It started off OK but I spiralled down into self doubt and hatred. Please see the image for my thoughts.

In the session I discussed some of these thoughts. We talked about how the intention to try needed to be sincere but trying to give it up could continue alongside some prepatory work for trauma therapy. This means that in the new year I will have another four sessions at least and see where we go…