Posted by baseball55 on July 1, 2014, at 20:31:54
In reply to Re: And this is why I don't post on this board. » Partlycloudy, posted by Dinah on July 1, 2014, at 10:21:05
dinah - I like your posts a lot and have always valued your contributions to this board. I care about the complicated relationship you have with your therapist. I have a complicated relationship with mine also.
But it is troubling that pc can post something misunderstanding you and you respond by saying - bye, good riddance, I'll never post again, etc.
It is this that makes pc feel uncomfortable here. At least, that's how I read it (I could be way off).
We all have different experiences. You have no reason to expect, on a public board, that every single post will be "poor dinah." I try hard to be empathic and open, but even I, in reading your posts, have been confused about what, exactly, your T did or did not do. You never said why he disappeared.
When you first posted about this, I remember comparing this to how I might respond to my t doing this and you reacted very negatively.
I wish you wouldn't leave the board, but I can understand that pc and others might feel that it's difficult to post here without, potentially, incurring your anger.
I don't mean to hurt you or be needlessly critical. But there is this hair-trigger hostility to your posts sometimes.
> > > Hi PC,
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> > > I've seen the same therapist for close to 12 years. It took me years to really trust her, I always appreciated her doing energy work and other alternatives to just talking. I have also learned alot and the only thing my therapist owes to me is an explanation if she ever terminates me. Good or bad I would want to know.
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> > > Poet
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> > Most definitely. And, from I understand, that question was answered. I would be upset but respectful. What about you?
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> I regret if I misunderstood your posts. I could have sworn you were talking about *my* therapy experience with *my* therapist and comparing your own responses with mine.
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> I didn't realize that it was your talking about your own experiences in therapy.
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> At any rate, I've mostly left the Babble community, and won't be posting on the board anymore. So perhaps you can make it into something other than "Dinah's Psychology Board".
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> For example, I read this post as saying I was responding in a way that was not respectful to my therapist, which seemed to be a negative judgement on me. That you would have responded in a different and better way. I'm not disagreeing with you. But I didn't read it as having to do more with *your* therapy with your own therapist than with my therapy and my reactions to my own therapist.
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> Ok, off to change my password to an unmemorable string of letters. So I won't be able to respond to any future posts by your or by others.
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