Posted by Dinah on February 18, 2010, at 8:40:46
In reply to Anything embarrasing ever happen in therapy?, posted by rnny on February 17, 2010, at 23:41:11
Oh heavens yes.
I once told my therapist something with my head buried on my lap and my hair pulled forward to cover my face.
Not only was I relaying something embarrassing, but I was doing it in the most embarrassing way possible.
He was perfectly lovely about it of course.
Another time, he told me he had bought a house in another city, and I burst into hysterical sobbing complete with gasps and hyperventilation. Apparently it was on a day when we were down from evacuation just for a day, and they had asked us not to use the water. I hadn't had a bath, just wipied a bit, and had had a very stressful day. He came to sit next to me and put one arm around my shoulders. I tried to move, wailing "I stink!!!!!" He said all of us stink today, and kept his arm around my shoulders.
That was so very sweet of him. Especially since if he did stink, it wasn't nearly as much as I did.
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