Please advise: I would like to start therapy, but I don't know what to say

I have a lot to unload, and I don't know where to begin or what I should and shouldn't tell a therapist or anything like that. I don't want to say a bunch of stuff and immediately get misunderstood for communicating poorly/unexpectedly. I want to make the right impression so that my experience with the therapist doesn't become a shitshow that I can't recover from.

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SW-User

Maybe begin with journaling first?
It helps with communicating how you're feeling effectively and warms you up to being open about it before speaking to somebody about it.

Loser · 26-30, M

@SW-User I don't know what I'd even say in a journal

SW-User

@Loser write what you're feeling, thinking, doing

PastelHearts1412 · 22-25, F

@SW-User That's a good idea! When journaling your words don't have to be organized or correct, it's a nice place to begin the process of releasing your feelings