Posted by Dinah on February 25, 2005, at 15:07:49
In reply to Re: Sharing the burden (possible slight trigger) » Dinah, posted by Aphrodite on February 25, 2005, at 11:31:48
Chuckle. My husband sees my therapist as the guard between him and my craziness. He's more dependent on my therapist than I am. :)
I do let him hug me (even when it hurts), and I tell him as much as experience has taught me he can handle.
My therapist was frustrated Wednesday, about my work problems mainly. He admitted to it (one of his finer qualities), but it just occurred to me that it might be more than that. But he's convinced me he's not burning out on me.
He was so cute today. I suppose I should be somewhat appalled but he was just too funny, and made me laugh. And I don't laugh easily these days.
I made the embarassing admission that I am washing my hair very infrequently and generally not bathing on the days I don't have an appointment with him or a doctor. And he was asking me why I thought I might be doing that. And I was an obedient little client and trotted out all the unconscious motivations I could think of. After each one, he'd say "And can you think of anything else?" Finally I ran dry, and he was so obviously feeling excited about some sort of breakthrough that I laughed and told him he'd have to tell me because I'd run out of ideas.
"You're depressed!!" he said in almost relieved recognition. "I don't know why I didn't pick that up from the suicidal thinking!" He was so happy that I felt sort of maternal and reminded him that it was probably because he knew me so well. And he admitted that yes, he knows I get suicidal when I'm not clinically depressed.
So now he's relating everything to depression, and pushing me to get an antidepressant.
It was just so cute that it still makes me want to smile, although another part of me is somewhat astounded that he just now figured it out.
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