
Dec 12, 2012, 10:43 PM
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Member Since: Dec 2009
Location: Southeastern US
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Originally Posted by Anne2.0
My feedback is the biggest issue about your therapy probably shouldn't be about your T. I'm not sure what this means, but it may or may not have something to do with you focusing on her rather than yourself.
I also think your title is interesting. My first reaction, yeah, so? Your T acts different from session to session, she's not a robot or a machine or the therapeutic equivalent of a stepford wife?
Shouldn't this be about understanding you-- your behavior, your feelings. This was an interaction, and you are somewhere in the midst of it.
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I'll concede this.
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Originally Posted by Anne2.0
What's wrong with an honest show of anger, as long as it isn't abusive? Raising one's voice and having a different tone doesn't really mean yelling.
I understand, I think, that she jumped in before you finished your sentence. Can you look back at that email, perhaps in context of all the other emails you've sent her, and see how she could be on edge about it?
Also, starting out the answer to any question, "I don't care?" It's not a great way to talk to another person and I could see how someone could sort of lose their cool in response to it.
I do think it would be useful to you to try to see how what you said could have honestly provoked her to feel angry. And I'm just not one who believes that showing anger, as long as it's not scary or abusive, is wrong. In fact, I think it's healthy and normal. It's how you show that anger that matters.
Most of us could stand to understand better our impact on other people. In your shoes, I'd be asking my T, what is it that I said or did specifically that evoked/provoked you being angry?
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I don't have an issue with anger, per se. Here's the thing...anytime I've gotten angry in session...she's immediately told me to simmer down. So it's okay for her to be angry, but not okay for me? That's a double standard and I don't abide by that. I tried to ask her what made her angry and she insisted she was not despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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