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Originally Posted by mcl6136
All,
Some of my best appointments with my former T (I won't go on and on, I promise) involved me bringing objects into therapy that I thought would tell my story better than going on and on (as I do from time to time in this forum).
Have you done so? Has it helped? My former T always took them, looked at them, and never said a word. Often, they were photographs of people/things that meant a lot to me. His silence FREAKED ME OUT
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I have taken objects in. Often it is as you describe: T takes it, looks at it and hands it back in silence.
What I get from this is, "Only your words matter."
But it has sometimes been different. My daughter was playing with play-doh and I played too. I made something (I can't remember what), baked it and some impulse had me take it to T.
My story was, "Look T! I played with my daughter and I'm a great Dad." Her story was, "You brought this to me as a token of love."
On another occasion I mentioned a sex toy that she had never heard of, so I brought it in to show her.