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Originally Posted by Protoform
If I tell my therapist that I was ridiculed in high school and made of but he/she doesn't take me at face value and instead asks me a lot of questions as if expecting him/her to prove that it really happened and implying that I am stupid/deluding/exaggerating, do I argue with him/her, do I cry and beg him/her to believe me, or do I leave his/her office? If I should leave his/her office, do I slam the door, do I gently close it, or do I leave it open?
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If your therapist was asking you questions, it may have been just to get more information abou the situation, not to question the validity of your statements.
you said implying that you were stupid/deluding.exaggerating...so your therapist never said they didn't believe you or thought you were doing those things? did you just feel like that because of the questions?
I know sometimes my therapist asks me more questions to get more details about what happened...and the questions are uncomfortable, like in the case of bullying (which happened to me) the specific details would cause me a LOT of discomfort to answer, but i've never felt my therapist didn't believe me.
Before you leave the room, I would make sure you are right in your assumption that this person doesn't believe you.
If you feel like you need to leave, I would simply say...
I'm not comfortable with this conversation so I'm going to leave now, and walk out. Leave the door open.