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Originally Posted by ruh roh
Could it be that the emptiness you feel is some kind of defense against being let down and finding out it's not real? If so, it's worth exploring and working through to the other side where you can know that your therapist's kindness is genuine. I'm betting that it is.
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She is a very kind person, I believe that's real. What really gets to me are her practiced facial expressions of understanding, sympathy, or surprise, that change from minute to minute depending on what I'm telling her.... they're more like reflex actions than real emotions, that have been trained into her.... as though there was a class or text that instructed "react to Client A's revelation of X with Emotion D-12." Okay, it isn't THAT robotic but it doesn't seem genuine and is constantly reminding me of the unreality of it all.
I also catch her eyes darting over to the clock every so often. That bugs me too.
I'm very close to laying my feelings about her on the line.