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Originally Posted by rainbow8
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.
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Realize that T's also think about us and our issues outside of session. It's not a switch that that can be turned off and on. I care about and think about my clients outside of my work day. My T has admitted to giving a few things that I've said a considerable amount of thought outside of session. She prays for each of her clients daily by issue. I asked her to pray about my client and she said she would. I believe her.
Now if thoughts of us outside of session became obsessive, it would be unhealthy for the T and the client. I have a coworker that obsesses on our clients outside of session and I would consider her mentally unhealthy. She spends quite a bit of time drained. A T or any other helping professional or direct care worker (i.e. CNA's, LPN's, RN's, etc.) must take care of him/herself first to be able to take care of anyone else.