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Originally Posted by Fixated
I think this thread has put words to a lot of things with which I've been struggling. I always used to refer to it as a business. T would only begrudgingly acknowledge she ran a business...offered a service, but she doesn't seem to have trouble calling herself a professional. It's one and the same to me.
If caring is inherent in being a professional, then I feel like that isn't the kind of caring I want. That the caring T offers has nothing to do with who I am as a person. I didn't earn any caring. That is just who they are/how they do their job. That doesn't make any sense to me.
So is the only difference between T and my dentist or professor the amount of time I spend with her? Is that how I should look at it going forward? Because, so far, it's been in its own strange category that I have not quite been able to figure out.
Rainbow, I feel/understand your pain, I think.
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Thanks, fixated. Sorry I didn't reply sooner because I DO feel that you understand me. However, there have been other threads about T's job and caring, and the consensus is that Ts DO care about us even though we are their "job". In fact, I've asked my T if I'm "just her job" and she said "No". Of course any T is not going to answer yes to that, but I believe my T. I don't think it's the amount of time Ts spend with us that make it different from our dentist or professor. It's the intimacy of therapy. There's no way around it. Therapy IS unique. It IS in its own strange category. I wish it didn't cause a lot of us so much pain, but I think therapy is meant to bring out emotional pain. Our dentists and drs. see our physical pain, and they care about it. Our Ts see our emotional pain and they care about it. Thanks for your post, because you helped me to try to figure it out again.