Posted by annierose on May 5, 2007, at 20:41:21
In reply to Re: Come heck or high water » gardenergirl, posted by Dinah on May 5, 2007, at 12:24:31
Not to redirect the goodness of this post ... but touching on a side point ...
My t also keeps her cell phone w/vibrate mode on her desk. And yes, it does skitter and twirl. She always apologizes and turns off the vibrate after it goes off AND after she checks who calls.
She doesn't turn off her desk phone either. I have gotten use to it ringing during our sessions. She completely ignores it and keeps talking. I think she has learned to tuned it out. It bothered me in the beginning but now I am used to it. If I can guess why she doesn't turn the ringer off - knowing her as I know her - she probably kept forgetting to turn her phone back on in-between sessions and was missing phone calls she could have taken. Or the ringing phone reminds her to check for messages between sessions.
Once when I was having a particularly difficult session, and her phone rang twice within minutes, she did turn off her ringer.
I think Dinah and I just accept this practice of our therapists as a minor quirk in otherwise wonderful people.
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