Embarrassing things that happen in therapy

[KwanYingirl]

When my session is over, my t walks to his office door and holds the doorknob and he may be still talking to me but I’m freaking out because I feel trapped that only he gets to open the door to let me out. This embarrassed me so I just would stand there fearful. Finally I got my courage and some measure of trust with him that I admitted this phobia. He was very cool about it. I felt silly.

 

[UnicornSightings]

mine happened yesterday....I had picked up a sweatshirt from my pile of clean laundry to wear. When I go...

Omg this is hilarious!! I fear this happening lol!!!! Good job on laughing about it with your t!

When my session is over, my t walks to his office door and holds the doorknob and he may be still t...

I told my t I thought he wanted to murder me the first few sessions. Lol!!! I didn’t quite realize how irrational that thought was for awhile... it’s still embarrassing to think about. But actually it’s kinda cool. He knew some of my crazy right from day 1! ;)

 

[KwanYingirl]

Oh and I’m having one right now! I’m getting a new med management provider and today’s my first visit with her and I came an hour too early. Ugh!! I could’ve had a nap!!

 

[DharmaGirl]

I was at my therapy session, and my mastiff service dog came with me. A horrid smell came creeping up from the floor. I was so embarrassed, because I was sure he thought I farted and blamed the dog. But is was the dog!

 

[Friday]

At the time? The new therapist I’d been assigned to was the same bloke I’d been f*cking all weekend. Whoopsies.

Now / looking back? Probably a tossup between the times I lost my temper & shoved some particularly brutal Dark down someone’s throat (trauma history), until some people were sick & others were crying, because they pissed me off with their sniveling, & when I threw a chair. Both before walking out / never returning. I had no patience or tolerance for anything outside my frame of reference in those days, and almost no self control. Took a long time to learn both.

^^^
The group therapy things... My actions? Entirely on me. I have to seriously question what moron thought it would be a good idea to stick me IN those groups, though, just because I have T&A.

 

[FauxLiz]

@Chosen it wasn’t underwear but I got warm in session and went to remove my cardigan sweater thanks to the joy of static cling as I took the sweater off you could see two perfectly mis matched socks clinging to the inside back of the sweater. Guess I forgot the dryer sheet

 

[SinkorSwim]

I always get embarrassed because my stomach likes to talk in therapy. I don't know if it's just extra stuff going into my stomach but when I have a particularly tough session my stomach likes to groan and bw loud even if I'm not hungry.

 

[somerandomguy]

I always get embarrassed because my stomach likes to talk in therapy.

Oh jeez, this used to happen to me all the time. Probably stress!

 

[Arebas]

I found one of the sticky things I use to mark pages on my notebooks under her desk. I often look anywhere but to her face. So I picked it up and I was rambling and then told her that they didn't have a very good cleaning service cause that sticky had been there since my session the previous week. Then she said "Yeah, I haven't had much time to do a very thorough cleaning these days..." Yep, turns out she cleans her own office. I was so embarrassed!
We laugh about it now but for a whole month I always made sure I told her how everything smelled clean and fresh as I came in.

 

[hymnless]

Mmmm a couple months back I really freaked out during a session and had been drinking a cup of coffee from one of the paper cups with the hard edge on the bottom- like at Starbucks. I’d gotten so upset that I was squeezing the cup (ended up putting my finger through it- whoops!) and the rim had dug all the way down to the bone. When I realized it at the end of the session my hand was hurting so badly, but my finger wasn’t. That’s probably because I compressed the nerve so badly that I couldn’t feel my finger at all. I actually still can’t feel that finger and my therapist brings it up every time she wants to call me out on my anxiety lol.

There’s simply no good way to explain a therapy related injury to your friends and coworkers... also my therapist will now ask me to set my drink down when I start to get really upset hahaha