Posted by baseball55 on September 6, 2013, at 23:05:59
In reply to Re: Ideal Patient » alexandra_k, posted by Poet on September 6, 2013, at 13:33:06
Therapy was very intense for me and I was suicidal and hospitalized a lot. I asked my t if he intuited at the beginning that I would be a difficult patient. He said i wasn't difficult at all, just complicated. A difficult patient was one who constantly called wanting to have long phone conversations and/or who constantly threatened suicide in a way that was clearly manipulative.
After talking to him about this, I realized I was more difficult to myself than I was to him. As a professional t, he was not dismayed by me, nor surprised by my constant tears and depressions. Given my history, he expected this. He said I always worked hard and this made me a gratifying patient, I never was sure what this meant. I did work hard, but only because I saw no choice in the matter. It was get honest and get will or die for me.
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