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Originally Posted by PeeJay
I hate the power differential that T has over me and I usually try to minimize it by learning more about T and trying to relate as one professional to another.
Are you a mental health professional? (I'm not.)
I see therapist not as a peer, but as someone who works hard and is interested in her profession and I do remind myself that I'm nothing more to her than an appointment on the calendar and that I provide to her just money and perhaps some professional satisfaction from dealing with my neuroses.
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I wouldn't say that we are
nothing more than an appointment on a calendar. I know that my patients are more to me than that. Also, there are much easier ways of earning much more money than being a T. But, I also think that there are many folks on here who want to / long to have very close, personal relationships with their T's. Our T's can care about us, be concerned about us, even have a certain amount of affection for us, without making us integral parts of their personal lives. The trick, if you want to call it that, is knowing where to draw the line.