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Originally Posted by lolagrace
My first question is whether your therapist is actually a medical doctor, a psychiatrist. That would be more common if that is the case. Otherwise, it does seem unusual for a therapist to insist on titles and last name.
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Yes, she's a psychiatrist.
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Originally Posted by lolagrace
Do you really actually use your T's name that much?
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Not THAT much, but I prefer using person's name when I address them. It's just how I talk.
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Originally Posted by Brown Owl
I wonder if she has had some kind of experience that made her introduce this 'boundary'?
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She's very strict about her boundaries. Calling her by her first name would be too informal for her, and she can't have that because she (as a therapist) can not be my friend. She's there just to help me to understand things about myself. And she wants me to respect her boundaries the way she respects mine. And I can understand that (on some level), it's just this Dr.-Mr. thing feels so wrong to me. I'm not used to this.