Responses To Your Therapist That You Will Probably Never Say

[joeylittle]

T: [makes some blatantly obvious suggestion]
M: I've been working on this problem for longer than you've been practicing, so just skip anything you learned in Psych 101, okay?

I have to thank you for the best belly laugh I've had all day. This, right here, this thing you wrote? I think it frequently. :banghead:

 

[Nighthawk]

T: thats just not realty
M: so in your realty its okay to be in denial, avoid , neglect and just pretend my realty doesent exist :confused:

 

[Ellabella44]

T: if you want in addition to someone to prescribe for you, I can give you suicide hotlines and i advise if you cant get anyone to talk you down, to go to a hospital.

Me: Thanks, its great that you tell me im doing well after this latest flashback, but do you have to follow up on making me think about suicide after it?
(of course ill never say that but shes offered the hotline and hospital advice a few times)

 

[jaccat]

T apologising after laughing when I say something funny about my past, saying 'we're not supposed to laugh...'

Me: well this godawful experience I've been through has to have some perks, and gallows humour is meant to be one of them, right?

 

[DesiretoThrive]

"Is there any chance, on any level, or...uh...say, at any point in time... that I could get a suggestion or a reply other than another question or a nod?
Yes? Or, no?"

"Are you self medicating or juggling your social life in your mind while I speak?" then,

Sing the following..."Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me...is there anyone at home?"

Staring wide eyed....."Were you just now disassociating while I was disassociating?"

"How am I deflecting when telling you the truth? Like, I'm running a blame game here!"

"Please don't tell me you're 'here for me when I am ready', when I am certain you are not ready to hear from me!"

"Keep the change!"

"No. I am not afraid I am being watched...well, I am now!!"

"I know!! Let's not do another backward genealogy tree to determine where in the family the abuse and neglectful behavior started!"

"What's important to me is that I broke the chain of abuse, until I sat here for three months."

Wow, that was awesome. I just got so much off my chest buy typing a reply to this thread!!

 

[.Bubbles.]

I want to say:

Will you please just stop staring and saying nothing! The silence is killing me! Im sure shes waiting to see what i have to say. But talk about awkward.

 

[Nighthawk]

T; Well we could get sad about something
M: You can get sad about something Ill get angry

 

[Candleflames]

What is up with these Mr Rogers sweaters you've started wearing? Stop it! They weird me out.

 

[Changing4Best]

I like our sessions a lot, but I may have to stop coming here due to my finances taking a plunge. What can we do about that? Can you forfeit my copays??

 

[MomOfTwo]

T: I want to prescribe you a medication to take in addition to your anti-depressant because your anxiety is too high and you are too depressed.
Me: ok

I did tell her that I did not think I was depressed just anxious.

What I did not tell her is that I stopped my antidepressant. It had unpleasant side effects like all other antidepressants I have taken. I really do not want to take medication if I am breaking teeth and feeling shaky inside.

 

[Changing4Best]

My therapist does not know yet that I have been taken off my anxiety medicine, because my Dr. does not want to prescribe controlled substances and it is one now. So now I am going through the tapering off one and tapering onto the other and the other is an antidepressant, not anxiety medicine. I don't see my psychiatrist until next month....

So I want to say I am so fed up with meds that I want to go off of all of them! But I know my therapist would freak out if I said that to her, as would the psychiatrist, sigh.... (but I am tempted to do so)!

 

[sun seeker]

T: What are you interested in? What do you love to do?
M: Uhh... what part of "I'm chronically depressed" did you not understand?