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but I will say that as a therapist he may have been in the middle of something when he took time to call you back. You don't know that perhaps he was signing a new mortgage on his house, or even intervening with another patient and trying to hospitalize them or something, ok

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Actually I know he wasn't busy... unless you count reading up on stuff busy. (Is it odd that I know that he really doesn't have very many clients right now and that he was free for at least the hour in which I phoned? The receptionists at my Health Services centre are really helpful)

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Why not ask the T why he has that particular item for the agenda Monday?

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This might be a good time to say he's actually a counsellor who's got training in pastoral counselling. His "agenda" is that he thinks I'm mad at God. Odd. Very odd. I told him I didn't want to bring religion into my therapy, and he's usually fine with it. If we don't talk about that (I have no interest in doing so) then we'll probably talk more about my going for further counselling at an abuse centre. I hate the fact he has an agenda for me. HATE IT. My therapy... MINE. Unless it's going to help me, I'd rather just go with the flow. Am I being ridiculous for saying that?

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I'm thinking that your T has a service (human) rather than a electronic message center. Why not talk to him about leaving him a message with that service? Would that have the same outcome for you, to know he knows that you are having a tough time and just wanted to make contact with him?

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He sort of has both. You can leave him a message (voice mail) or you can leave a message with the receptionist and he said he'd phone back when he could that way... this time, since he wasn't in session, the receptionist transferred me directly to talk to him. I think it would have made me feel better to not talk to him directly... I can compose myself better, and he can phone back if he's busy... or not at all. I don't know.

This whole thing is new to me. Why is something so basic so bloody confusing?

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