"Why Am I SO ANXIOUS between therapy sessions?" AKA

[@Katimorton]

Are you anxious between therapy sessions?😅😅

[@AmethystWoman]

Always! But especially if we're in the middle of tough stuff and I know what we need to talk about in the next session. Sometimes it's that I have new "information" and really dread saying it out loud. And for me, not saying it, is not an option.

[@GamingRealmOfTheGods]

Yup yup yup, every time! Can't help it! Doesn't matter which therapist or how long I see them. (Just started video answered prior to watching)

[@ICG_1687]

Yes, but I have little sessions with my Clinician in my head when/if I have moments.

[@favored81]

Yes… feeling it now

[@monicah.3553]

Yes, always😏

[@clr7850]

I discovered your podcast a few weeks ago and simply love it. I'm a counsellor for an anonymous youth and young adult line (20+yrs) and during the pandemic I needed to find podcasts to keep my mind busy when going on those long walks (alone) and have found some for comic relief, some informative, some clinical but mostly finding a good healthy balance; I learn by doing so applying some info/strategies to myself and sharing some with my work. I think your podcast is by far the best I have subscribed to in the past 3 years! I love your realness and non-judgmental approach to your responses. AKA, the podcast that breathes authenticity. I appreciate your response on repressed memories on allowing the client to remember and mindful the therapist must not ask leading questions...thank you for doing this amazing podcast. clr Montreal

[@_maia_m]

Timestamps Q1 0:51 Q2 19:35 Q3 25:12 Q4 44:07 Q5 51:31 Q6 55:40 Q7 1:00:10 Q8 1:05:34

[@daisy-daisy768]

Totally feel the first question. I tend to ruminate about sessions (what we talked about, what I could have said, what I really tried to say but couldn't get out the way I would like, etc) and get anxious about the next session. One way I have found helpful to cope with this is to write all the thoughts down that flood over me after sessions and email them to my therapist. That way, I have "dumped" my thoughts and can be calmer between sessions. I am also less anxious about the next session as I know what to expect as we talk about what I wrote.

[@sarahallegra6239]

As I’m dealing with nearly crippling anxiety between sessions today, this couldn’t have come at a better time. Thank you! ❤

[@kreasiw]

My favorite podcast! I look forward to it all week.

[@askkatianything]

Yay, thank you!

[@cindyperez1085]

Excellent video! You are very gifted to be able to present information and ideas in a non threatening manner. Thank you!❤

[@ababy6074]

I am similar to the person in Q2. I find it really hard to open up to my parents but have found myself open up much more easily with people I hardly know (not strangers though). I have to these people a little about my traumas and my parents are quite judgemental and have had 3 kids (myself and my 2 brothers) all with mental health issues, quite severe too.

[@musicmom2161]

This is an amazing video. Thank you so much for explaining how I actually feel in between therapy. Right now I have the added anxiety to switch therapist on a 3 weeks notice as she is leaving the practice. So my anxiety is extremely high.

[@annellealexander4025]

Thanks for taking time to answer my question Kati. Pleasant weekend! 😀

[@rayjarrett3051]

I don’t have therapy, but I do at times have high anxiety. Not because of thinking, but physically for no reason, so I try to dismiss it and carry on while the heart is racing. Also not on meds

[@nikkimckay860]

AKA & OTDM Podcasts. hello Kati Morton just catching up with this Episode tonight it being Saturday night and the time is 1:24 am here in the uk I always look forward to and need to listen and watch this podcast every week I like and find everyone's questions interesting and informative you always share so much advice and support to everyone's questions I have much love respect and appreciate you so much I wanted to add also I am really struggling with video call therapy sessions and only having 1 therapy session every Monday I am feeling like I'm a disappointment and not progressing or able to focus always sweating and feeling Anxious before therapy and after my session has ended please can I have some calming helpful advice ❤❤

[@gracetanner4132]

Do you think its dangerous trying to recover possible repressed memories by yourself like without a therapist? Ive been trying to journal about these scenes in my mind and curious to see if anything happened or if its my mind just imagining it

[@AmethystWoman]

My personal advice as a survivor? Get a trauma-informed therapist, if at all possible. If, like me, if any part of you questions whether or not your memories are correct, don't read books that describe other people's memories. There's no better way to doubt yourself than to think you read about it in a book so you're "making it up" as opposed to a book triggered a real memory. As I've said for decades "denial has been my best friend." Turns out it's not true, I'm now 68 with still lots of work to do. Don't do what I did. Get some good therapy and get this worked on so you can have a decent life. I also find that sometimes I will tell a memory to a therapist and then blank it out. My therapist can be my memory bank sometimes. I guess it's because of practice but therapists seem to have amazing memories! (maybe Katie can speak to that?) My therapist will also connect memories - one from last year and that one from this year - in a way that I never could have done on my own. I do believe we can do further damage if we try to do this on our own. Or maybe we just stay stuck for a very long time.

[@wolfdreams2000]

@AmethystWoman I 💯 agree! I'm 61 and only this past summer, I began to process and work through my ptsd with my awesome therapist. It's very important to have the professional eye working through these things with us in order to provide the correct tools to assist us. Thanks for sharing

[@eloisemarie5219]

So so good Kati.

[@RJ-hm9gi]

Thanks Kati I do I'm hurting in weird ways does she he notice?

[@olenydahlcult3824]

Thanks Kati for another interesting and helpful episode. I'm just wondering if anyone else noticed this occasional weird quality to your audio. Is your microphone doing something weird or is it my end and my headphones are having issues. Completely able to hear what you're saying, so no problem, just wondered if anyone else got this. Sounds like you have a cold and then don't.

[@kreasiw]

I didn't notice any sound issues. 🤷‍♀️

[@olenydahlcult3824]

@@kreasiw OK must be my end then! How strange.

[@eveharris30]

I stopped therapy because they never wanted to fix the problem. They just wanted to keep the seasons going for financial reasons.

[@nourfattouh6547]

Thank u Very helpful

[@RJ-hm9gi]

Kati I think I'm in love all the time and I keep getting hurt in my feelings. I have a diagnosis but I'll never share again....am I ready? I feel like I need permission...and Im always so sorry....what's wrong....with me ....I'm a nice guy but .....I am deathly shy of who? Is she...who she been with...I hate men that I just know want a one night stand...I take meds and feel small....I'm. Not though I scare women away....I'm sick...I'm I'll....okay smart AF?...I please what do I say....Im stuck in all departments...bc I've been so hurt...I know it's not my fault....am I off to a good start😊