| Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can feel stressful at times because you relive with your therapist past and current problems which can stir up intense and painful feelings and memories. It is not unusual to find yourself feeling that sometimes your problems feel worse at certain stages of psychotherapy. You might even feel that therapy is making you worse and you might want to give it up, particularly if you have been dealing with something particularly painful. This can also happen before or after a break in therapy and you might feel reluctant to go back, but not really know why.
Although it might sound odd, this process is something that is incredibly important and useful, because it allows you, through the intensification of feelings uncovered by looking at difficulties in your emotional life, to work through and find resolution for issues that you might have been trying to keep buried.
This remembering and working through of repetitive anxieties and upsets that have been keeping you feeling stuck, allows you instead to explore and unravel them, eventually coming to a creative understanding of them which can set you emotionally free.
Ultimately, this can feel very liberating, so even if at first things can feel tough in therapy, in the long run you are going to feel a great deal better, through understanding your authentic self with greater clarity and compassion and improving your relationship with other people as a result.
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