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Posted by rnny on February 17, 2010, at 23:41:11
I was embarrased one of the first times I started crying hysterically in therapy after acting like I had it all together for a while. I thought I was losing my mind and that after crying the T was going to say something like, "you may need hospitalization". Instead she was very supportive and what was coming out was alot of repressed pain and anguish.
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.
Posted by pegasus on February 18, 2010, at 12:31:22
In reply to Anything embarrasing ever happen in therapy?, posted by rnny on February 17, 2010, at 23:41:11
I think just about everything that happened in my first two years of therapy was excruciatingly embarrassing to me at the time. And looking back on it, I'm even more embarrassed because of the additional knowledge of things I didn't understand back then. But I'm less bothered by being embarrassed than I used to be. I had a T at the time who was very good at handling how excruciating the whole thing was to me. In retrospect the experience was worth it.
In retrospect, I wish I'd been more brave about plowing through the stuff that was *too* embarassing to broach at the time. But I guess there's always time to get into that in the future. I'm not sure I'm looking forward to it, but I believe it'll be worth it.
Peg
Posted by emmanuel98 on February 18, 2010, at 15:27:37
In reply to Re: Anything embarrasing ever happen in therapy? » rnny, posted by pegasus on February 18, 2010, at 12:31:22
One of the things I learned in therapy was not to be embarrassed about my emotions. I don't know how many times I prefaced something with -- this is so shameful or I'm so embarrassed about this. Or how many times I cried and then apologized for it. My T actually got annoyed with me for doing that constantly.
Posted by obsidian on February 19, 2010, at 22:46:05
In reply to Anything embarrasing ever happen in therapy?, posted by rnny on February 17, 2010, at 23:41:11
it's hard to cry the first time, I tried not to for a while....
I think maybe being unable to cry is what might be more likely to send you to the hospital, but that depends on context and opinion I suppose
-sid
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