I know that I probably wouldn't recognize my therapist if I met her outside of therapy. It's about visual memory with me, not anything about how I think or feel about her. I just can't keep people's face in my short term memory . . .or even in my long term memory often!

I known that she has grey/white hair that she pulls back in a bun. She never wears jewelry and her clothes are usually neutral . . .although the last time I saw here she had on this beautiful light green, flowing shirt that I loved. She is probably 5 to 10 years older than me ,but she is a person who has relatively no wrinkles. I only know that she is older than me because I know that the level of her education and practice means that she is older than me. I like that she's older than me; I looked for someone who was older than me. It's hard when you get older to find someone who understands and "GETS" the issues that you're dealing with as an older individual. It makes me smile because when I was young, I didn't want some old fart trying to talk to me that had no idea what it was like to be 22 or 28 or whatever! Guess what? I realize now that what matters is that the person ACTUALLY experienced what it was like to be in the place I was in at the moment, not that they were actually in that place at the moment