Posted by Daisym on May 14, 2009, at 23:08:50
In reply to Re: How It Went, posted by sunnydays on May 14, 2009, at 20:14:12
I was really struck by what you wrote above - that my therapist should be really careful with my feelings right now. I keep wondering if he should be - isn't it his job to challenge me and help me see the things that need to change? Sometimes he can do this and it doesn't feel like the end of the world - but this time it did. So what was different? I'm trying to really figure that out.
I worry all the time about appearing manipulative. I think TG is right - we worry about appearing dramatic and have been told our whole lives that we are something we aren't or weren't. So how do we know what we are? Or where those boundaries really are? My therapist did some reality testing around this today. And then asked, "do you really think you are manipulative? I said no. But "I think you think I am." They should wear a ticker-tape on their fore-head so we can see their thoughts. It would be so much easier!
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