bad dreams about your therapist?

[Mach123]

This is hysterical. Why didn't I think of this? I haven't had this happen yet but I'm sure it will now! I'm not dissing you're thing by laughing, pls don't think that, I love it. : )

 

[Sandstone]

maybe you feel no shame in your mental illness

I think it's more that the shame is located in specific places. I worked for the NHS when my PTSD came on, and parts of my trauma have medical links. I carry a huge sense of failure that is linked to medical environments, so perhaps it was good to be in a very informal, non-medicalised environment.

 

[Mach123]

I had a nightmare last night. I have not had one for IDK a long while. The circumstances are different, the fear is the same. It was not the therapist exactly, it was a woman which is not really a theme but it's happened before. It's really funny it happened. Suggestion. I knew it would. I had therapy yesterday and we were laughing at the idea. I was not laughing when I woke up last night. It was not a real bad one because I've had to lie in bed for hours from those, paralyzed with fear. It dispelled quickly.

 

[Stephernovas]

I had a dream about my therapist the other night. In the dream she set up an appointment at a random location and didn’t show up, and didn’t respond to my inquiries as to why. Later in the dream I found out that she contacted all of my colleagues and told them about my diagnoses and medications. I got very mad at her and sent her a ton of messages yelling at her for sabotaging me/my life.

Anyone have experiences with dreams like this of your t treating you badly? It just confuses me a little. I obviously know she would never do anything like that. I am starting to trust her more and more in the past month or 2, so this dream doesn’t really make much sense to me.

I’ve had many. Dreamed she sneakily and abruptly cut my hair one time...wtf not cool

 

[Friday]

I’ve had many. Dreamed she sneakily and abruptly cut my hair one time...wtf not cool

Wow.

The symbolism there is huge.

Since, you know, shaving someone’s head is the most common first step in removing their identity & innate self respect.

Whether you’re planning on rebuilding those things in a new stronger/better image (military), or are pacifying them (for imprisonment, slave labor, or interrogation). Step one? Strip their identity.

It’s weird we attach that much emotion and sense of self to hair, right??? But it’s a technique used in almost every culture, throughout history. New recruits, novice monks, prisoners of war, concentration camps... all 6 continents, for all of recorded history.

As is shaving your head in profound grief & bereavement. But that’s another identity stripping nod. Since you are now yourself without your person that you’re grieving. As new hair grows, a new identity shapes itself.

 

[Shorty81]

I had a dream there was a toilet in the middle of my therapist’s office. It kept overflowing and I was on my hands and knees trying to clean it up with tissue. The tissue kept breaking up and I was asking T for help. She just kept looking at me without saying anything. When I looked out the window behind her there was whole town on fire in a very Hollywood post apocalyptic way. Weird

 

[Mach123]

Wow.

The symbolism there is huge.

Since, you know, shaving someone’s head is the most common first step in removing their identity & innate self respect.

Whether you’re planning on rebuilding those things in a new stronger/better image (military), or are pacifying them (for imprisonment, slave labor, or interrogation). Step one? Strip their identity.

It’s weird we attach that much emotion and sense of self to hair, right??? But it’s a technique used in almost every culture, throughout history. New recruits, novice monks, prisoners of war, concentration camps... all 6 continents, for all of recorded history.

As is shaving your head in profound grief & bereavement. But that’s another identity stripping nod. Since you are now yourself without your person that you’re grieving. As new hair grows, a new identity shapes itself.

How'd u like to b going bald? You feel all those feelings and who do you blame? I could never decide if it was worse for men or women but I feel really bad when I see a woman and her hair is thinning. I was lucky, I kept my hair. I've had plenty dreams about going bald though.

 

[Ronin]

Oh, hooray.

One thing I thoroughly don’t have. :D
(But I had a series of dreams about my new shrink. Who I’ve met once. And LIKED. :facepalm: .)

Used to have bad dreams about therapists before, though. When I had to keeep that attending therapy itself a secret / was stressed out and peeved by the whole thing about getting help needing to be so second life.

 

[jaccat]

I've had a series of dreams about going to my T appointment and finding she's moved to somewhere dangerous or unstable or the like. I've never bothered to discuss it with her. Even I can figure out what my head's trying to tell me in those dreams!

 

[ImSad]

All of these replies have been extremely helpful in making me feel a little less of an odd ball for having dreams about my t. Didnt talk to her about it in session last week, but with some reflection I think I’ve figured out what the dream meant. If I keep having them I think I’ll bring it up at some point. Thanks for sharing all your stories!

 

[MyWillow]

Funny...I dreamt last week that I turned up to my psydoc (main T) appointment and she had to put me off to help someone else (my lovely, worthy neighbour actually). I was totally not stressed because there were several cats with blood on them that clearly needed taking care of. And that gave me much more satisfaction than talking for an hour about myself lol

 

[ImSad]

Yikes!

I still haven’t talked to my T about this dream, but I haven’t had any more so far so hopefully it was a one time thing!