Desensitized and Reprocessed

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Hello Tim-

The first stanza is worth the price of admission

Nothing comes to mind
and overstays its welcome.
My therapist didn’t mention
that particular side-effect
when he led me into October
and asked, “What have you got to lose?”  great opening!

Though we’ve cleared a dozen traumas  I'm afraid that things start to soften here, for me. I'd suggest combining this stanza with the next, and losing some baggage along the way.
it seems one was left behind
and has now caught up
panting with delight
to see me again.

Out of breath
it gasps out its plaintive request:
“Promise me, you won’t mention the sex
you never had, that tiresome list
of unrequited loves, the furtive satisfactions
that you acquired when no one
was looking.”

I had no choice but to agree
since the trauma was nothing else but me. Sorry Tim, but this ending falls flat.  I think something stronger about how you talk to yourself would work better.

All in all, I much like the idea.
Mark

Thanks for the read and suggestions.  Not sure I want to work any more on it, as it was done in a moment of chagrin.  And I've grown to hate the title.  But perhaps I'll come back to it.  "The Therapee's Tale" a al Chaucer......