Posted by Elle2021 on December 1, 2003, at 8:20:24
In reply to update, posted by Miss Honeychurch on November 26, 2003, at 17:19:34
> And then I turned 12 and turned bright red and looked at the floor.
Sounds like me... :)
>He also told me that it is his policy never to compliment any of his patients on their physical beauty, so I could fish for compliments til the cows come home, but he would never budge on that one!
Did he say he felt it was unethical to give physical compliments? I'm wondering because of a situation I was in with my therapist a little while ago. I'm in college, and one of my older male professors had been hitting on me (fairly bluntly). I brought this up with my pdoc and he quite causually said, "Well, men like pretty girls." Like that was some kind of excuse for my teacher to put the moves on me. Then he just asked me "Why do you feel so depressed and miserable all the time, *your a pretty girl*, you have friends (but he made a note to mention these relationships with my friends are purely superficiail), etc." I have to say that I think throughout the entire time I have been seeing him, I have never got a compliment about whether he finds me intelligent. (Which was one reason I sorta didn't mind my professor's attention after that because he is always telling me how intelligent he thinks I am, I'm a sucker for being told things like that...) Oh well.
Elle
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