True or False
1. I have attachment issues with my t. - I AM attached to her, true! But it feels like a secure attachment, rather than an attachment issue.
2. I have jealousy issues regarding either my t's family or my t's other clients. - False. Not jealous of her family or her friends or her other clients.
3. I started therapy blindly, completely unaware that such issues would even arise. - True. Never thought of it. Of course, never realized I would be staying with her very long, or that I had enough issues to end up in therapy when I really went for a teeny bit of counseling!
4. I want to be t's favorite client. - eh, probably true. I guess tho I don't care if I am her very most favorite, because I don't necessarily want her playing favorites! But I am glad to know that I have touched her heart, that she trusts me in a way she can't trust all her clients, that she enjoys working with me....
5 I secretly believe that I am t's favorite client. - eh, more true than not! She'll certainly never say, either.....
6. I think about therapy more than any other element of my life. - False right now, although it has been more true some weeks. I try not to obsess, and it's a challenge for me.
7. I love my t. - true. I don't completely buy the idea that my feelings can be explained away as a reaction to/within the therapy process and not to her as a person, too; I see her as a genuine human being, not perfect, but with wonderful qualities that I also see in the other people in my life whom I love the most. She hasn't been a blank slate, and I think I have seen her as she is - and not just as an ideal that I have......
8.If I were to find out that everyone else here on PC had the same t as myself I would be ok with that. And be able to continue to offer support and caring to my fellow PCers. - true, although I can't pretend to be so righteous I would think it would be easy! But if everyone here had the same T, I would know you were all in the hands of a very competent and caring T, and that would make me happy for all of you!