my memory is pretty bad. i had one therapist who used to let me tape the sessions. i'd listen to them during the week and was often amazed at how different the session was from what i remembered! sometimes i thought her comments had a bit of a tone on them but they didn't seem to have that tone on the tape. sometimes segments of the conversation (about hard stuff) would have been conveniently 'forgotten'. i saw some of my repeated patterns of interaction. i wish i could still do that...