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18Oct

Can You Grieve Something You Never Had?

Clara Bridges

childhood, experienceoftherapy, grief, identity, mother

Mind

I never had unconditional acceptance from my mother, but with therapy I am finally experiencing what that feels like, writes Clara Bridges
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05Oct

I was Sexually Attracted to My Therapist

Clara Bridges

emotions, experienceoftherapy, love, sex, therapy

Relationships

I was shocked to be sexually attracted to my older, female therapist. But talking to her about this "erotic transference" has helped me understand it
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28Sep

My Migraines Were a Symptom of Psychological Distress

Rae Freeman

experienceoftherapy, health, therapy

Mind

Rae Freeman's experience of therapy brought with it an unexpected benefit -– fewer migraines. Oliver Sacks wrote about the phenomenon in his book Migraine
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15Sep

My 3 Therapy Sessions that Changed Everything

Rae Ritchie

experienceoftherapy, self, therapy

Mind

A client with borderline personality disorder finds her life turned around by three sessions of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
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24Aug

What You Want Isn't Always What You Need in Therapy

Clara Bridges

experienceoftherapy, self, therapy

Mind

How do you choose the right therapist? Clara Bridges lists the three lessons about choosing a therapist that being in therapy has taught her
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04Aug

Bringing Art to Therapy and Me to Life

Rae Freeman

art, creativity, experienceoftherapy, family, therapy

Mind

When Rae started bringing her teenage and current art to therapy, she found she was finally able to share long-suppressed emotions
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15Jul

Therapy Helped Me Realise and Accept My Anger

Anonymous

anger, experienceoftherapy, family, therapy

Mind

A young woman shares her experience of therapy, where she explored long-denied anger and how her recent relationships have been influenced by her past
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27Jun

Between Being Loved and Feeling Loved

Rae Freeman

experienceoftherapy, family, home, mother, therapy

Mind

'My parents don't seem to like me very much - why would anyone else?' One woman on her relationship with her mother and father, and how therapy helped her understand she is not inherently flawed
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25Feb

How Therapy Unlocked the Past for a Client with Trauma

Nicole Addis

experienceoftherapy, family, PTSD, therapy, trauma, women

Therapists

Jenny thought she was going to therapy as a response to the trauma of being mugged, but what she discovered ran far deeper
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24Feb

James Brown: 'Therapy Saved My Life'

James Brown

addiction, counselling, experienceoftherapy, men, therapy

Mind

Former hell-raising editor of lads mag Loaded, James Brown says therapy has helped him go from chaos to emotional calm
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