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#25: MBT Group Therapy > Between Losing Control and Trying to Hold Yourself Together
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- May 22, 2026
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Summary
🎙️ Special Episode – “Between Losing Control and Trying to Hold Yourself Together” Welcome to this special episode of the MBT podcast. In this group session, an intense conversation unfolds about control, helplessness, and the fear of what happens when emotions become too overwhelming to keep pushing away. What makes this session powerful is how clearly it shows that many group members, each in their own way, are trying to maintain control over tension, insecurity, and overwhelming emotions. Today, we listen to a group session where themes such as self-criticism, emotional control, not feeling seen, and the struggle between feeling and avoiding come to the surface. ⸻ 🧠What this episode explores Being overwhelmed by emotions Several group members describe how emotions can suddenly hit without warning. Frustration. Anger. Sadness. Helplessness. Feelings that once seemed manageable can suddenly take over completely. And that loss of control can feel frightening. ⸻ Keeping the lid on emotions The session reveals how differently people try to cope with emotions. Some spend years suppressing and controlling their feelings. Others experience emotions exploding in every direction with almost no control at all. But both responses serve the same purpose: trying to protect yourself from being overwhelmed. ⸻ Self-criticism and pressure to perform An important theme in this session is the harsh way group members look at themselves. Doubting yourself. Always needing to do more. Never feeling truly good enough. Compliments are difficult to accept, while mistakes become painfully magnified. ⸻ Not feeling seen The painful feeling of not being important enough also strongly emerges. When someone finally becomes vulnerable, but feels that nothing is really done with it, pain and disappo…