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Originally Posted by Mastodon
That is inappropriate. Your therapist's personal beliefs are irrelevant. She can believe whatever she likes in her own time, but in your time, it's your thoughts and feelings that are relevant. And I agree that these questions would have been worth exploring if they had not been phrased in those terms.
"You have a tendency to see people as all here or all gone", forsooth. Anybody might think that that's a character failure or a logical fallacy, rather than a belief shared by millions and millions of people. What worries me a little is that if I were you, I'd really hesitate before bringing up any subject that might cause T to react like this. Maybe that won't happen with you though - I hope it won't.
I can discuss things to do with religion with my T, he is well acquainted with the religious tradition I was brought up in, although I assume that he has no personal religious belief. (I'm not saying that I do, just that I was brought up that way. Not saying I don't, either. It's irrelevant here.)
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I already knew she was a pain in the butt to talk to about this. Right after she died, she was the only person I had to talk to about this and that was hard. I found out about her death actually on Facebook and I was completely alone to try and process it. She was very unhelpful.
So, I try to not bring up this subject with her. The problem is that if I mention it in passing, she forces us down that route despite me saying "I don't want to talk about this. There are more pressing things to talk about. I'm not going to talk about this."
I just wish she'd listen and back off occasionally.