Responses To Your Therapist That You Will Probably Never Say

[zaniara]

@Britt.f7 I'm sorry you will have to cope on your own for so long. My therapist had a 7 week long vacation this summer.. :eek: It was hard, but I managed to get through it.. And it was even good in some ways. (In Sweden a mother is allowed to be on maternity leave for a year.. ) :hug:

 

[Britt.f7]

I'm glad she is taking her time. I went to work one week after my second son was born and I don't think I'd recommend that to anyone if they don't have to. It will be hard. It will end up being over two months from our clinic. I just have to get myself to their clinic that is farther away. Then it won't be so long. She said she is also giving me her email.

I will get to discuss this more in my next appointment. Not sure what I've decided. But I do know I will not tell her not to go.

 

[euca]

I would like to be inside your head, and see the big picture sometimes. How many people do you see, how do you see them, how do I compare? Am I like them? Am I very nuts, or sort of nuts or making a big deal out of nothing? In those silences, are you planning what you are going to have for dinner while I'm living my hell? Do you ... really care less?.. You do a good job, I know that... but ... I sometimes would like to know.

Does it matter? No not really, I just sort of wonder...

 

[TwoDee2ThreeDee]

So how about we talk about something other than your love of organic foods and desire to create your human "kibble". How about you ask me something more than "How've you been?"

 

[NothingLeft]

Can I just stay here the rest of the day?

 

[maddog]

T: "How about next Tuesday at 8am?"

Me: "No, seriously? That's a week away. That's not ok. I need to come and see you before then. I just do. Please somehow just know that and find a way to make it happen. Don't ask me to say "that's ok" when it isn't."

 

[Chincho]

Can I just stay here the rest of the day?

I actually asked my T that once. When she didn't answer because of the surprise, I told her "I promise I'll be very quiet".

 

[zaniara]

"I promise I'll be very quiet".

:laugh::laugh::laugh::roflmao::roflmao::hilarious: (I could actually imagine my self asking that.. Going home, knowing that the shit will hit the fan when the "being numb for a short while-after-effect" of EMDR wears off and all hell break lose; while being on my own, isn't that nice.. :()

 

[maddog]

Not wanting to stray too far into irrelevant anecdotes, but that scenario has actually happened for me in reverse, ie, my T asked me once if I neded to just "stay here for a while" after our session, and I said yes, and subsequently did, for a couple of hours. Does that classify as a new thread - "questions from your therapist that you never thought he/she would ask?"

Maddog

 

[rainy_daze]

T: *responds to something I've just said - and for some reason I know she's talking, I can hear her voice, but I can't hear the words or understand them* (this happens often)

Me: What do you do in your spare time? (I wonder what she'd say :O_o:. I wonder if I'd care about her answer, or if I'd dislike her for having more fun than me :meh:;))

 

[EverOnly358]

"Um, what did you think? Did you think I really didn't have PTSD? Did you think I was just coming here for fun???"

(I *really* wanted to say this after my therapist dragged my PTSD monster out from under the bed and was surprised as hell about how bad things got so quickly. I tried to warn her. Told her I would do the technique on my own. She insisted. Then I got stuck in a weird flashback-like thing and freaked out. She didn't handle it all that well.)

 

[Britt.f7]

Thank you for the email but, more then likely, I won't use it.