I started with this T like 2 months ago. It has not felt right and the T seems more interested in other things than me. Lots of little things like forgetting an appointment, not knowing my name, etc. that I have overlooked, because well, everyone is human.
But, today, I left the session....walked out.
T kept saying "you think you are the only one who had a rough life? you want everyone to have sympathy for you? you think you are the only one who had bad experiences. you want to be stuck in your bad life so that others have sympathy? What is the point of staying stuck in the past, etc, etc." -- Saying it in a very confrontational way.
I could only take so much. And I kept saying no. No-one knows anything about my life...not even this T. I have never said anything in detail about my life, which is very, very different than most people, but I survived.
All I want to do is talk about my life and my feelings and go on the journey of understanding my life with someone.
Was this a therapy technique? Was that the point?
I didn't ask for sympathy, I wanted to explore my feelings.