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Old Apr 16, 2010, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by kitten16 View Post
Sometimes I try to attribute motives to other people, in an attempt to figure out why they've behaved a certain way toward me. T will say: "So you're going by what, here, your gut feeling?"
You were there, I wasn't, so you'd know better than I where he was coming from. Was he telling you you shouldn't go by your gut feeling, or just asking you to notice and/or clarify what you were going by each time?

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It's especially surprising to me that a therapist would dismiss me for having, or trusting in, my gut feeling.... here T is, telling me that it's not good enough.
Did he say he was dismissing you and it wasn't good enough (or did you happen to mention that you thought so), or are you going by your... er... never mind.