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Even though they're saying,
"This happened, and then this happened,
and I thought this, and I felt this,"
what we're really listening for is,
"and I should've done something differently."
"Oh, it's all my fault."
"We should have gone left instead of right."
That's what your therapist is listening for,
and that's what we target.
We'll say, "Oh, I just heard you say,
'We should have turned left instead of right.'
Let's talk about that."
That could be what we call in CPT a "stuck point,"
which is a thought that keeps you stuck from recovering,
keeps you stuck in your misery, it eats away at you,
and that's what we're picking out,
out of everything you write.
And sometimes, people can feel like their traumatic memories
are really chaotic and difficult to live with
and they get bombarded just randomly
by what happens in their environment,
it kind of triggers these thoughts.
Writing it can make it more organized, can help structure it,
can bring the chaos down, can put it in an order
that makes sense, can really be helpful,
no matter what kind of a writer you are.