Posted by fallsfall on March 3, 2004, at 10:33:29
In reply to Re: Do you have a picture of your T? » fallsfall, posted by tinydancer on March 3, 2004, at 4:15:14
I was afraid to ask my first therapist for a picture. She used to read all my journalling, and I think that someplace I slipped in that what I really wanted to find on the internet was a picture. But, of course, she didn't offer one. She would have seen that request as more "evidence" of my pathalogical dependency. When I displayed, rather than fought, my dependency I was punished (she reduced my sessions). So I couldn't ask her.
My friend's therapist had an ad in the paper with her picture - so I have a friend who has always had a picture - and I was so jealous. She likes having the picture, but doesn't "need" it like I do.
I had the picture of my current therapist before I saw him the first time. He knows I have it, and that I've printed it, and that I keep it on my headboard. I haven't told him that I fall asleep holding it when I feel needy.
If I had to change therapists (what an awful thought), I think that I would ask for a picture at the very beginning and say that it was helpful to me before. I'd want to get the request in before they could say "and what is prompting this request?"
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