Yesterday I saw my psychotherapist. I had a lot to share–heavy stuff that had just come up for me the last few days. Memories of things I felt shame and pain about. The day before they had weighed me down and made me feel quite miserable. Yesterday, instead, I was filled with high energy and couldn’t focus. I spilled out my dark secrets, but was not in touch with the feelings I’d had the day before when the memories had surfaced. I couldn’t focus and when my therapist spoke I kept having to ask her to repeat herself.
I told her, “I have this energy in my body that feels like it wants to escape. It feels like it wants to explode out of my body.” She asked me if I thought there was something I could do with my body to release the energy so that I could better focus. I said I didn’t know–what did she suggest? She asked, “what about getting up and jumping around?” I said I was embarrassed and didn’t think I could do that. She said, “well I’ll do it with you.”
So we got up and jumped around, shook are arms about, wriggled and writhed, stretched and groaned and then sat back down about three minutes later and then we laughed–good and hard. She said, “I wouldn’t ask you to do something I wouldn’t do.”
It worked. The rest of the session was one of the most productive and revealing I’d had in a long time. And I became convinced that I have, indeed, found the right therapist.
Everything Matters 
Yeah, sometimes I just have to jump up and down because of excess energy. I’ve never found a therapist who understands that, but at least I’ve got a boyfriend who doesn’t mind if I randomly start jumping up and down in public!
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Hi Gianna,
I had that manic energy but I had it much worse. I had that fatigue you talk about along with the over stimulation, as well as pain in limbs, voices and delusions. I am now exercising little by little without fatigue. The arthritic like pain is gone as is everything else except my reaction to stimuli. I also didn’t think that I would exercise again. I didn’t think the
pain would leave much less most of the other stuff.
As you know my condition was different but similar.
Keep up the good work,
Jay
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Hi Gianna,
I had that manic energy but I had it much worse. I had that fatigue you talk about along with the over stimulation, as well as pain in limbs, voices and delusions. I am now exercising little by little without fatigue. The arthritic like pain is gone as is everything else except my reaction to stimuli. I also didn’t think that I would exercise again. I didn’t think the
pain would leave much less most of the other stuff.
As you know my condition was different but similar.
Keep up the good work,
Jay
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Oh, this is good!!
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