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Old Jun 27, 2011, 10:18 AM
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He thinks it has the potential to be both good and bad. He thinks it's good for offering and receiving support and to feel less alone with some of the issues I struggle with, but he also sees the potential for posting threads that don't necessarily reflect the reality of certain situations, because even if we think we're being objective about our relationship with our T's, we can still only present our own version of events because our T's don't have the opportunity to agree or disagree with our interpretation. And I don't know about anyone else here but when my emotions are running high I'm not the best judge of reality, so that's why you'll rarely see me posting anything when my T and I aren't exactly on the same page. I used to post about those issues several years ago at another site before I found this one, but I eventually learned to deal directly with my T and work it out with him when we had a rupture because I realized when I went back and read those old posts weeks or months later, my perception of events had been clouded by my past and I was surprised by my ability to distort things when I thought I had been presenting them accurately at the time.
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Conversation with my therapist:

Doc: "You know, for the past few weeks you've seemed very disconnected from your emotions when you're here."
Me: "I'm not disconnected from my emotions. I just don't feel anything when I'm here."
(Pause)
Me: "Doc, why are you banging your head against the arm of your chair?"
Doc: "Because I'm not close enough to a wall."

It's official. I can even make therapists crazy.