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Originally Posted by Depletion
Wow your previous T has seriously never hear of lipstick lesbians, and she seriously has no idea about how fun and cool makeup can be. I think I actually tend to wear more make up and put more effort into my appearance when I'm feeling better about myself. I can't believe your T would make such a shallow and stereotypical assumption.
Also I would never be ok with a T telling that kind of stuff about my looks, I would also find it confusing. How seriously irresponsible.
And I know what you mean about T's telling you that you can't be dependent on them, my last T did that when I was honest with her about my feelings for her. I wrote these poems as away of telling her, and brought them to session hoping that we could talk about the things I was struggling with in the poems. She basically refused to talk about them, and yelled at me the whole session, telling me how I couldn't depend on her. And she apparently told my next therapist that my feelings were "inappropriate" (apparently having no idea about what erotic transference is). I'm seriously starting to wonder it this some kind of messed up script they teach therapists. If the client falls in love be sure to tell them that they can't depend on you, and categorize their feelings inappropriate.
I'm so mad that this happened to you. It just sounds so messed up. You know I wrote my last T an email telling her exactly how I felt. I asked her in the email to take responsibility for the things that she had done. She never responded of course. But it felt good to do that. Is it possible to write to her without expecting a response?
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It is absolutely awful now I think back on everything

I am sorry this happened to you, too - but I am so proud of you for e-mailing your T!
I am training to be a psychologist - and I know that every person that has feelings IS a human being, these feelings are real and important to them - and important to talk about.
I don't understand how the way I looked "overcompensates" for the shame I felt about being gay... when I didn't wear make up, she would say, "You don't have make up on?.... Wow... you don't need it" I was falling for her - and these comments were confusing for me... I wanted to ask her where her feelings towards her giving these complements were coming from... I still wonder - she said I was inappropriate, but the countertransference was just as confusing