Posted by backseatdriver on August 28, 2009, at 14:29:14
In reply to Re: How much of our pain can our Ts tolerate? » antigua3, posted by rskontos on August 27, 2009, at 0:00:28
> His response is you'd be surprised at what others think
My T said much the same to me, when I confessed to almost constant suicidal ideation. I thought long and hard about this disclosure. He doesn't ever disclose about other patients; he does disclose quite a lot about himself. I do believe that, when he said this to me, he was saying something like: "I too have days like that."
It was healing to come to this recognition. I wonder if your therapist is saying the same thing.
It can be very hard to admit these feelings, yet they do often seem to want to come out. I think this is true even if you're a therapist with these feelings. So if a therapist with these feelings met a fellow sufferer who was feeling alone in their specific hurt, he or she might naturally say something like this, to share the burden and relieve the isolation *on both sides* without losing face professionally.
just my two cents.
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