Dear Sofioula:

I hope you are sleeping as I am typing this, it being almost 4 am your time. It seems to me that your therapist is a good one. I am not sure but I think she is, from what you wrote about her. I don’t think it’s a therapist’s job to give you answers, but instead to lead you to the answers that are already there, right under your awareness. By focusing on you getting some control over your OCD, she may be working toward calming your brain so that you can get to the answers you need.

She may not know the answers to your questions herself. I don’t know the  answers:  I am learning over time. Here is how I will be learning further, by asking you the following question:

Was I correct when I suggested that your father mistreated you and your sister directly, with his angry  words and behaviors?

Or do you think he mistreated only your mother?

* Can you give me a few examples of him mistreating you (besides the one example you already gave), and of him mistreating your mother?

anita

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