Posted by 10derHeart on December 27, 2005, at 22:01:05
The poor, dear man.
We're about 20 mins. into the session today, and he's already had to put a sign out by the waiting room saying he's running a little late. I asked him what happened, and he just said he couldn't get going or get anywhere on time this morning. Not really like him. Then, he suddenly interrupts me (never happens) and asks if I remember a talk we had once or twice about nervous habits, foot bouncing, in particular, both his and mine?
I said I did, and proceeded (I can be SO oblivious) to chatter on about times I saw his foot tapping, and what it meant to me, what mine meant...blah, blah...until he breaks in with the worst look on his face and says, "well I have to tell you what it means this time is that you're *really* going to see some wiggling if I don't step out and use the men's room right now."
poor guy. I totally had a calm reaction and it didn't bother me AT ALL, which he knows, but he was dreadfully embarrassed. Muttered something about him being the T. and so *he's* not supposed to do that. Yeah....right. And he stopped being human when? Oh...oops..right...that would be when we clients put him up on that darn pedestal! ;-)
Wonder if he'd been holding it for 20 minutes or more. Wonder why it's "so" unacceptable - he took his vibrating pager out of his pocket last week - right in the middle of something fairly hard I was telling him and looked at it - that was TONS worse (and yes, I let him know it!)
Therapists.
Fascinating creatures.
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