Last therapy session didn't go so well

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When I saw my therapist last Monday, for some reason I felt tensed up nearly the whole session and stuttered my words. I won't get to see her until after Thanksgiving and it feels like the session was wasted. She did give me homework to do but I still feel like the session didn't go well.

Don't worry, I'm sure the next session will go better. She won't mind if you stuttered. Just do the "homework " then it won't feel like the session was wasted.

Most of us feel, from time to time, that some days didn't go as well as others. Even in baking, I find that even using the same ingredients, sometimes the product comes out differently and didn't work as well as the previous time.

I mentioned the drama I had to go through at work and somehow my history with going to gyms but not getting any benefits out of the endeavors came up. Both are heavy subjects for me so that's partly why I became tensed up.

I understand.

Actually I also had a big self image problem from about the time I started high school and for many years after that. I had a skinny build and was shy especially at school PT (PE) and also found that no amount of weight lifting in my stepdad's garage made a difference.

She's quite used to you and other patients of hers battling to talk about heavy topics.

Maybe you can write some of the points down for next time if that makes it a bit easier.

As envirozentinel said, this is something that any counsellor would be used to. In fact, I'd say even that it's a positive thing that you managed to still talk about those things despite how difficult you were finding it - it shows your commitment to the counselling that you didn't just give up and decide not to speak about them at all. A bit like a physical workout; you don't get as much benefit from exercises that are really easy than from ones which make you sweat a bit.

I've had some awful sessions , it happens , try not to dwell on it.

Do not let failures define who you really are.

I've been stuck in a vicious cycle since I was 17. Is that abnormally long?