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Old Jun 08, 2011, 04:07 PM
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Today my therapist gave me solid examples about how I've "changed" as a person. Now, I don't remember this but she said that almost two months ago I was calling her very frequently and I was always freaking out... and now I don't call her, except for positive things or about appointments. She says that's positive change because I need to learn to realize emotions aren't the end of the world and that I can cope by myself.

Wow. Then when I was upset towards the end of the session, because I told her I was financially broke and couldn't afford to continue seeing her, she actually TOLD me to Google her. Which I found amusing because of all the discussion that usually happens here in this forum around researching your therapist. So I now know that she's got like THREE different places that she's a therapist at, so I'm assuming she knows that one of these places would offer more reduced counselling for me. Why she wouldn't outright say that is beyond me... but it's interesting to be given permission to Google her! (I already knew she was on LinkedIn, a networking site for professionals but I'd never would add her there since we've never "worked" together )

I do wonder what she thinks of me sometimes. She told me today that apparently I've tried to fire her like three times recently in the meetings we've had. Oopsies. My general reaction to dealing with feelings or conflicts - get away from them. So anyway I apologized for doing that and told her why I do it (I'd rather fire someone than have them leave me).

My therapist honestly amazes me.
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