Posted by OzLand on August 4, 2007, at 19:25:26
In reply to Re: delayed reactions to T--Dinah » Honore, posted by Dinah on August 4, 2007, at 15:38:49
In terms of being laid back, he sounds like my psychiatrist/therapist from Menninger's. Nothing ruffled his feathers at least as far as patients were concerned. No matter what I did or said or what others said or did, he was always calm. He had a great laugh too, looked like jolly ol St. Nick, and when he lauged which he did a lot, his belly did roll like a bowl full of jelly.
I used to think he was laughing at me but later learned when he became my therapist when I was out of the hospital that he was laughing at what I said, the absurdity of some of my statements. I finally caught on to this after oh I guess two years! I would get so angry. Such is life with therapists. I now just cut to the chase and ask, swallow my pride, and of course it usually means I have misinterpreted his intent.
So maybe he means weird in a good way. Besides he probably does admire that in you and may think it is nice to be able to be that way. I have a friend who is "weird" in her own way and yet very sensitive. She knows now when I start laughing that I am not laughing at her but laughing at how she is so comfortable with being the way she is. She is very outspoken and does not give a crap what anyone thinks, and yet she does. She also has awful follow through, and so I have to chase her down sometimes. It's okay; it's who she is.
Oz
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