Responses To Your Therapist That You Will Probably Never Say

[rainy_daze]

This part sounds eerily familiar:

Me: YES! Jeez woman where have you been for the last few months?

The psych actually said this:
T: Oh that's good, there doesn't seem to be evidence of self-sabotage.

I wanted to say:
M: P*ss off with your ridiculous phrase. I'm not a case study, I'm a person. This whole time I've been trying to communicate with you, you were trying to gauge whether or not there was evidence of me self-sabotaging what exactly? Some thoughts you should keep to yourself until you learn to articulate them better. P*ss off.

Still, I'm looking forward to seeing her again :facepalm:, I could use the help. Possibly minus her pointing out what there is no evidence of.

 

[Jenfa]

Q. "So, what medications have you tried in the past?"
A. "Yeah. It's in my chart."

Q. "Are you having feelings of hurting yourself?"
A. "No, but I kinda want to give you a slap."

Q. "What do you feel when you awake from these types of nightmares?"
A. "I feel like making a pizza using magic. Wtf do you think I feel."

Q. "Have you quit smoking yet?"
A. "Do you ever get tired of asking me that?"

Q. "If you did ever have feelings about hurting yourself, how do you envision doing it?"
A. "Well, I just said I didn't, but if I had to hurt myself, I would jump on my kid's bmx bike with no seat. Happy?"

This is a good way to lose a therapist. I've tested each and every response personally lol

 

[Tanishq]

Q. "Have you quit smoking yet?"
A. "Do you ever get tired of asking me that?"

:laugh: This is a sign, therapist is stuck somewhere in progress. Need to move ahead.

 

[Tanishq]

Some thoughts you should keep to yourself until you learn to articulate them better.

I thought the same. They need to learn how to speak and select the words. This is not about getting earned(paid) at the expense of client. Also it made me bit frustrated.

Hope you raise this point, so you don't have to get frustrated in next visits.

 

[Deleted member 10686]

She is very fashionable but sometimes it doesn't pull together right and she looks funny :) I'd never tell her that.. lol

 

[Abstract]

Me: "gobbledegook blabber blabber" with a few coherent words or phrases scattered in there.
Therapist: *look of confusion and possible dismay*

Me: "You try to make some sense when you firstly don't know what you feel or think, usually feel as if you have been emotionally and physically anaesthetised, are at least half in lala land, your tongue is numb, have a white swirling mass where your brain should be, and a continuous stream of your own very loud running commentary in your head about how you are lying, stupid, disgusting person etc ect! How would you sound?"

 

[twopenny]

Sigh. The parts I have typed the T has actually said, my replies I shall never say, as she has already explained that is how she talks with her clients, referring to their parents as "mum" and "dad". Infuriating. It also feels a bit patronising. I don't understand the purpose of talking like that.

Oh my god, that would drive me absolutely batty! It's used to irritate me beyond belief when school teachers used to do that, and I was 7 then. Now it'd just be unbearably patronising.

I tell mine she's wrong and she ignores me and keeps on talking.

I had an art therapist who did that once. At length. Seemed to think he was Picasso too.

 

[zaniara]

My therapist told me a while ago that I was so sensitive to words, actually he said so just before the summer break.. I wondered what he meant by it, and asked(since it sounded to me like he was really tired of me at the moment he said that):

Me: I think you were a bit tired of me just before the summer break.
T: No. Why did you think that? (as if he could say yes to that even if it was true!!)
Me: Among other things you said that I was so sensitive to words. What did you mean by that by the way?
T: Well, lets see. When did I say that? In what context?
(Me explaining. Him remembering. Maybe..)
T: Well I just meant that you hear words and sometimes reacts strongly to them.
Me: Well I wonder about that. I'm not doing the right thing when I'm interpreting/analyzing stuff on my own, without asking. But when I'm asking about what you mean by a word I'm sensitive to words? This really confuses me.. Should I not listen to your words? Should I not be sensitive to words? But are words not used to communicate and thus important?
T: Well there is a bit of a scale here.. It's not black and white. But maybe you can ask directly when I say the things you react to and not the week or month after? That way it would be easier to avoid confusion, and then you wouldn't have to go home feeling badly about something you misunderstood.
Me: Agreed. I will try to ask directly. So what do you mean with a scale?"

:D I also told him that he must give me the credit for listening very attentively to him, since I remember his words so well. Then he got a funny look on his face.. :D

I can really be the patient from hell sometimes.. I'm only telling a fragment of the argumentation I'm putting him through: and I'm actually trying to shut up and not say ALL the things I want to say sometimes.. I know he would have enough of me if I did: he denies it, but he IS human so I know that I need to behave at least some of the time.. ( Sometimes I wonder if there is something else wrong with me than PTSD.. :D )

 

[twopenny]

I know that when I eventually get [back] into therapy I'm going to be an absolute nightmare, because I will say exactly what's in my head, and I will question everything. And keep questioning everything till I get an answer I'm satisfied with.

That's one of the few parts of my personality I'm sure is just me, uncoloured by PTSD :rolleyes:

 

[Tanishq]

Zaniara, so many people have told they are done with me.

 

[DMerish]

You're nuts! It doesn't work. I've tried it over and over in many situations. I'd like my money back.

 

[zaniara]

That's one of the few parts of my personality I'm sure is just me, uncoloured by PTSD :rolleyes:

:D I guess that's the truth with me too.. That's just me. But since I never could BE me before: since I was so scared after all the abuse and being me actually could put me in a very dangerous situation, I have a lot of catching up to do and have a lot of questioning to do: since I was never allowed to question anything at all.. or even ask question about anything. If I didn't know the answer I was ridiculed, or punished. SO.. My middle name is "pain in the *ss". :D

Zaniara, so many people have told they are done with me.

So sorry Jaret. Maybe if you find a good therapist you would finally find someone who would be able to handle you with great care(since they got the tools to do so) and "stay with you" until you're stronger and can find real friends. I know that I could never form any good relationships before, due to my PTSD: since my self-worth was so low(or none-existing really) and I was pretty hard to have a relationship with really. It hurts to admit this: but it was the fact: having a relationship with someone as messed up as me; living and functioning like a victim 24/7 isn't easy for a healthy person: thus I only found unhealthy persons to form relationships with: or I fled from the person who actually was good to me, to find my self someone who treated me accordingly to my feelings of self-worth(I felt that I wasn't worth anything but abuse..)