Posted by pegasus on March 13, 2004, at 0:28:51
In reply to The Walls have Ears, posted by DaisyM on March 12, 2004, at 23:27:59
At my old T's office, all the offices on the floor shared a waiting room that was just outside my T's office. One of the other offices was a chiropractor's office, and they treated dogs. So every now and then, I'd hear dogs barking outside the door. And I could hear people too. It didn't bother me at all, but it drove my T crazy. For a while there, it seemed like every week he had some new thing going on to muffle the noise (signs in the waiting room about being quite, noise machines, new fancy noise-reducing door frame, acustic panels, etc.).
When he moved to a new office, I arrived a bit early for my first visit. While I waited, I clearly heard every word being spoken in his room, which was freaky and disturbing. I told him about it, and he was very concerned, and after that there were noise machines and a CD player, etc. and I never heard anything else.
In that same office, once we heard a girl screaming in the parking lot. We both stopped and listened, and he went to check that she was ok.
If I heard sobbing, there would be no way I could continue doing therapy. We'd have to talk about the sobbing, if we talked about anything. I'm with you. Even if noise machines were then turned on, I'd be all discombobulated. Therapy within a silent environment is hard enough.
- p
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