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Default Mar 25, 2019 at 06:54 PM
 
Todays session left me confused. He did something I think was called mapping. He is trying to figure out exactly at what age I decided I did not deserve love or whatever. He started with me visualizing me at 1 month old and asking if I deserved to be taken care of and loved. Well yes babies are not bad, helpless and should be taken care of. So he did this all the way up to 3 1/2 years old where I agreed children that age deserve to be cared and loved for but when he got to 4 I had a problem. I was struggling internally and that is when my dissociation started.

What's the point? What type of healing is going to come about from this? Maybe it is more for his understanding I suppose.

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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.
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