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Let It Bleed

image"Doc, I'm bleeding here!" "What do I have to do, open a vein and bleed all over your rug?" Blood and bleeding make for strong symbols in psychotherapy, but what does it all mean? Read More

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YOU SOUND AS IF YOU LACK A GREAT DEAL OF EMPATHY

doc i am bleeding here

doc i feel as if the life energy is being drained from me - i am dying - i am disappearing into an emotional vortex of confusion or pain - I am losing myself, going unconscious from lack of awareness etc. going into an emotional abyss.

also: coming apart at the "seems" might you mean seams ? An allusion to something sewn together. tearing apart as in the tearing of a seam on a dress -- or a stuffed animal losing it's stuffing because a seam tears open (another useful metaphor) for psychic pain

doc i am bleeding here

doc i feel as if the life energy is being drained from me - i am dying - i am disappearing into an emotional vortex of confusion or pain - I am losing myself, going unconscious from lack of awareness etc. going into an emotional abyss.

also: coming apart at the "seems" might you mean seams ? An allusion to something sewn together. tearing apart as in the tearing of a seam on a dress -- or a stuffed animal losing it's stuffing because a seam tears open (another useful metaphor) for psychic pain

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Greg Dillon, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health at the Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell.

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