Posted by Miss Honeychurch on November 13, 2003, at 15:21:00
In reply to Re: Cold Session - need comfort please » Miss Honeychurch, posted by Dinah on November 13, 2003, at 15:09:06
I didn't ask him if anything was bothering him, but I could tell from the minute he got me from the waiting room that something was up. I'm always afraid to ask anything personal for fear he might tell me it is none of my business.
So I'm just making guesses as to what's going on. I brought in my homework assignment which was to write out a a list of my daily worries (there are 29!) and then come up with a rational answer for each one. Well 4 of my worries centered around him (abandonment, fearful that he finds me boring, transference)and that was when he got pretty stern. He did make me look him in the eye when he said that I didn't need to fear that he would terminate me and that his door would always be open to me. I guess his sort of brusque manner just really hurt me since that is how my father used to relate to me and Dr. P. is such the opposite of my father.
But thanks, Dinah, for your words. It helps to have someone remaind me that therapists are indeed human!
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