Responses To Your Therapist That You Will Probably Never Say

[zaniara]

@DMerish. Oh! :laugh: :roflmao: So very curious about how she reacted and what she answered...

 

[DMerish]

@DMerish. Oh! So very curious about how she reacted and what she answered...

Zaniara - My therapist laughed. She said it was a triple shot Mocha made with whole milk and had whip cream. She bought for herself because she'd been up since 4am with her sick 4 year old. She offered to share it with me, and she would have but I declined saying I had already ensured my overweight figure wouldn't changed today because I already had eaten two pieces of birthday cake at the office before I came. I adore my thereapist. She "gets me" - she knows there's been so much unfun in my life that I don't stick around unfun situations or unfun people for very long. That's not to say I don't feel sad things, empathy for others, or can't be serious. I can. I just need to balance the morose with some lightness now and then, otherwise, down the rabbit hole I go. :rolleyes:

 

[amethist]

To my husbands therapist.

No shit Sherlock, you just told him what I have been telling him for months. Maybe I should do your job as I am at least 10 steps ahead of you.

 

[zaniara]

"How on earth can you stand working with this? Do you get off on pain?"

@DMerish I know, I need laughter too. and it's really, really weird that there is so much laughter in trauma-therapy, when it's so horrible too at the same time.. but my therapist really has sense of humor! And gets mine. (most of the time:he didn't laugh at all when I laughed when I read that the rapist said in the police interrogation that he didn't even find me attractive..) Maybe I just answered my own question..

 

[Britt.f7]

Not my therapist, but my nurse practitioner who handles my meds. He decided one of my meds, that is handled by my GP, might need to be upped due to lack of energy. They are not in the same clinic. Does he call him? Nope. He handed me a note on a piece of post a note paper, that he hand wrote, for me to give to my doctor.

I would have liked to say, Not very professional are you?!

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

Today when my therapist said "so you choose to believe you're worthless" I wanted to say "yes I sit down and decide to believe it because it makes me feel so good". Genius. Like it's a conscious choice I knowingly and willingly make or something. Please.

 

[Deleted member 10686]

Sometimes when I come in I could give a ^%*% less what you have to say.... Lol

 

[EverOnly358]

"Are you just that f*cking stupid or are you deliberating trying to manipulate me into being triggered?"

Oops, I did say it. Bad, bad me. :eek: :mad:

I was really angry. We were just talking about one of my triggers and it got really upsetting. So we both changed the subject to something innocuous and the first words out of her mouth, an example about what we were talking about... totally related back to my trigger (the one we were JUST discussing) and since she was saying it... oh, disaster! I went off. It would have been great if I only asked this question once, but no... I repeated variations on it at least 8 times. In the end, she basically admitted that she had made a mistake because she wasn't thinking how it would affect me and then two minutes later said something like, "But it's such good progress that you were able to express anger." But it wasn't the real anger that needs expressing... it was that I refuse to flight (run out of the office), freeze (stop talking) or fawn (become the perfect patient and say what she wants to hear (people pleaser)) my way outta therapy! I had already been triggered more than once in the session... anger was all that was left. But it was a fight or flight reaction... not getting in touch with my anger regarding my abuse. (I didn't say this to her.) Whatever! Therapy is not my forte. :wtf:

 

[EverOnly358]

Today when my therapist said "so you choose to believe you're worthless" I wanted to say "yes I sit down and decide to believe it because it makes me feel so good". Genius. Like it's a conscious choice I knowingly and willingly make or something. Please.

Something similar happened with my therapist and I wanted to say...

"These kind of comments make me insane! I'm going to therapy to be less insane! Listen, therapist, isn't it your job to help me be less insane?! Stop trying to make me more insane!" :mad: :confused: :sour: :eek:

 

[digger]

T: It felt like you were managing to stay more present with me today. Is that how it felt to you?

pick a response...

a)Sorry did you say something?
b)Are you talking to me?
c)Gotcha!

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

Yes that's right I'm stuck being haunted by my past because I'm consciously choosing that I want to be stuck. That's it exactly. It sounds like so much fun. By my action of even GETTING INTO therapy I was making the conscious choice to stay stuck :shifty:.

 

[Changing4Best]

I think you are the one who needs therapy, not me!