After last week's session, I posted this to the Couch:
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Originally Posted by mastodon
T had another major lapse of memory yesterday, telling me that I had never told him something which I know I had - I kept a therapy journal at the time, so I know the exact date I told him (although I don't know exactly which details I mentioned then.) It was one of the very first sessions I had with him, and I don't think I have talked about it since. I know I should bring this up next time, but I am very worried about what it might lead to. And I hate, hate, hate it that I am so uninteresting that he forgets these things.
Maybe I should cut the poor guy some slack - I told him this in September, 2012, and of course he can't remember everything I say. It's just that this was such a major thing and I have been talking about related things assuming that he was aware of this.
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Today's session started something like this (minus a lot of hesitation and false starts from me) :
Mast: I have a problem that I need to bring up, about something that happened here last week.
T (interestedly) : Ok.
Mast: Do you remember what we were talking about?
T: We discussed a number of things... one thing that I was going to mention, is that I looked at my notes afterwards and discovered that you had in fact told me about [x], and it is not the sort of thing I would normally have forgotten, so it is interesting that I did."
***ackworthiness warning for stopdog***
T
***end ackworthiness***
He had a very interesting explanation to why he had forgotten it, or at least one reason why he had done so, which gave me some extra insight. It had nothing to do with me being uninteresting. We had a really good discussion.
I feel a bit sheepish being all joyful and relieved all over the couch when I know lots of people are hurting and suffering, but I can't really mention this to anybody else...
Oh, and do me a favour, please? The next time I voice doubts about my T's genuine interest in my well-being, please apply a large trout to my head. You may sing about Finland* while doing so, but it is not mandatory. Thank you.
*Spamalot reference