Posted by bell_75 on May 14, 2004, at 21:15:57
In reply to Re: Thank you Open Babblers for your support I saw CB, posted by DaisyM on May 13, 2004, at 15:03:04
> My Therapist asks lots of questions that leave me wondering, "what?!" Like, once I was really upset because I had to do a CPS report on a baby who was being abused and it triggered all kinds of things in me. So I told him I just drove around a bit until I felt calm enough to go back to work. He asked, "where did you go?" Now I'm thinking, "huh?" because the REST OF IT seemed so much more important. Ultimately what he was fishing for is did I drive by or near his office...did I "need" him to calm down. But the question brought me up short at the time.
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> Therapy is a strange thing...
>*hugs* Indeed it is.
Without going too much into it, these questions he asked that I thought were not so much for my benefit but his were about why I had such feelings/emotions about an event that happened a long time ago and what was *really* behind these emotions. He made a few suggestions about what might have caused them because I was being hesistant/reluctant to give him an answer and these suggestions were way off and offended me. I guess T was just doing his job. After his suggestions I ended up saying "no" to them and welling up into tears. Ugh...therapy.
As i said, it was an intense session.Funnily enough I've never told him that sometimes in between our sessions when I feel completely helpless, I sit in my car in the car park of his office. I feel content there not only because it symbolizes the security of therapy but also because its in a secluded area where there isnt frequent traffic and I feel as tho im hiding from the world. Mind you, the car doors are always locked whilst I sit there :)
I try not to make too much of a habit of this because his office isnt exactly nearby my house. Its on my route to college tho and when he cancelled on me those times I felt like skipping college and just sitting there in the car park crying and protesting. I didn't tho. My education is important to me.*big big hugs* Hope to catch you in Open oneday :) Its therapuetic itself.
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