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Old Jun 20, 2013, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by rainbow8 View Post
I tend to interrupt my T and not listen to her. I do that in RL too. Today she commented about it and told me that it seems like I don't want to hear what she has to say.
I would get curious and see if I could tell when in her speaking I had the urge to interrupt, what the trigger is? I know when I read sometimes, I'll suddenly find myself in front of the refrigerator and when I backtrack I find there was a scary thought that was the impetus to suddenly be looking for something to eat. At one point, I actually put a book in my refrigerator to remind me what was going on.

I'd bring some item to therapy with me to hold, something unusual that makes me think about interrupting (condom? :-) or talking or an exchange (picture of a stoplight? stop sign?) and see if I could focus on my speaking, T speaking, my speaking, etc. and when that was hard and either T or I caught me interrupting, I'd instantly drop the interrupting and look at what was just said and how I felt about it, why I was trying to stop it.
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Thanks for this!
rainbow8