Hi all, I’ve posted here before but only casually. I’m finally in therapy with a therapist that I can trust and I feel like can actually help me cope/understand my family system.

I’m a 27 year old male, I grew up in a household where I had no real role models or was I able to share my emotions with others, I was shamed if I did.

My mother was/is an alcohol and a massive narcissist, as well as my brother. My dad was dismissive and short tempered when I was younger.

Oh not to mention the gaslighting anytime I mentioned there was something clearly wrong with our family.

Anyway, that’s my spiel. Therapy is super difficult starting out for especially when I went from hardly feeling any emotions at all and now all of them hitting me at once.

Has anyone else experienced this in therapy? I’m finding it to be difficult to manage at this point if I’m being honest..