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Old Feb 23, 2006, 04:09 AM
Anonymous29319
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Given therapy is what the client brings into it. I don't think the therapist was trying to hurt you.

Therapists take the cues from the client. Those cues are - what the client says and their body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions.

So if a client brings up their weight, binge eating, society views of what it takes to have a man, and feeling like they themselves are lazy during the same conversation - yes I can see a therapist saying this to the client because that is what they heard in the clients words, facial expressions, tone of voice and body language.

Therapists do this to challenge the client to think about what they had said and how to solve their own problems with their weight, binge eating, lack of having a man and feeling like they themselves are lazy.

This is what a therapist job is - to point out things that the client is saying, and feeling sometimes this happens by the therapist repeating the words, tone of voice, and expressions and feelings they got by paying attention to that the client. Sometimes the client does not like to hear these things and that makes them angry at the therapist. One therapist told me - "If I am not p**sing you off then I am not doing my job. doing my job means p**sing you off enough that you take care of your problems if for anything else but to get me off you ***** . That same therapist told me that when I had the urge to drop her was when she was actually getting through and hitting home with the problems that I brought to her. Some people run because they have been running from their problems all their life. It takes someone special to meet the challenges of their problems head on. She couldn't tell me if it was time to get a new therapist or not. All therapist's job is to force the client to look at their - I could run from my problems by keep getting new therapists every time they made me mad and hit home on my problems or I could meet those problems head on and take care of them. I chose then and now to meet my problems head on.

I can't say one way or another if you should get a new therapist only you can say that.