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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.
Posted by daisym on December 28, 2005, at 0:24:55
In reply to My poor T. (nothing bad), posted by 10derHeart on December 27, 2005, at 22:01:05
So does this mean that next time his foot is bouncing you send him off to the little boy's room? :)
I think I read somewhere that one of the biggest "mistakes" therapists make these days is scheduling themselves too tightly. They don't protect their lunch or dinner hour nor leave time for bathroom breaks or note writing or whatever. I guess it speaks to our lovely insurance industry and their reimbursements. It might also speak to how much we all need our therapists sometime.
Posted by happyflower on December 28, 2005, at 4:48:49
In reply to Re: My poor T. (nothing bad) » 10derHeart, posted by daisym on December 28, 2005, at 0:24:55
LOL! I would laugh if my T said that! :) One time though at the end of my session he seemed to be hurried, and I asked if something was wrong, well he said he had to pee! LOL I said well don't let me stop you! LOL Who know T's actually used the restroom! LOL I thought they were super human!
Posted by sleepygirl on December 28, 2005, at 16:30:23
In reply to My poor T. (nothing bad), posted by 10derHeart on December 27, 2005, at 22:01:05
I thought they tied those pipes off when you go to T school. ;-)
Posted by fairywings on December 29, 2005, at 0:12:11
In reply to My poor T. (nothing bad), posted by 10derHeart on December 27, 2005, at 22:01:05
LOL Poor guy.
Looking at the phone, or continuously looking at the watch is a big no no, and answering the phone is grounds for ..... divorce!
fw
Posted by pegasus on December 29, 2005, at 10:36:23
In reply to My poor T. (nothing bad), posted by 10derHeart on December 27, 2005, at 22:01:05
Oh, poor T. That makes me laugh. Are you going to have to process that whole episode in therapy now?
My most recent T always scheduled her clients for 60 minute sessions, then 15 minutes in between. I think that was so she could always go to the bathroom in between! Plus she does art therapy, and so probably has to clean up the art stuff in between. If I'm ever a T, though, I'm going to do it that way, even though you probably can fit less sessions into a day that way. As a client it was great to get the full 60 minutes, and I never minded showing up at 1:15 or 10:45 or whatever it ended up being.
pegasus
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