Last session T and I were talking about something totally normal and non-threatening... Our cats or something because we were under the 5min mark... it was almost time to go. In the middle of a sentence she sticks in "I know you are still scared to be here" and then goes on with the completely unrelated sentence. When she pauses at the end of the sentence she then says "that stirred something up" and then goes on with our conversation about cats.
I just want to scream "NO S* that stirred something up!!!!!!!"
Now she has stirred it up and left me in a weird space. Tuesday when I go in she will make no mention of it... Given her past history of poke and run she will not bring it up again for years if ever.
So... the logical thing would be for me to bring it up Tuesday... I SO get that... Thing is, I've tried it and it doesn't work. She insists that she has no memory what so ever of having said what ever it is she poked me with. Theoretically I can say "T, I am still scared to be here" as if she hadn't said it first. She will make some adjustment to how she is sitting to let me know she heard me and it is safe to keep talking but she won't say anything. Then we sit there and stare at each other because I don't know where to go with it other than putting it out there.
Perhaps I should make up "poke and run" tickets like a "hit and run" traffic ticket and hand it to her at the end of the session.
Anyone else have a T that does "poke and runs"?
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There’s been many a crooked path
that has landed me here
Tired, broken and wearing rags
Wild eyed with fear
-Blackmoores Night
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