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Originally Posted by Brown Owl
After my session this week I re- experienced feelings of trauma, which were awful. I want my T to express sympathy next week. People often say that Ts should give empathy not sympathy, I'm just thinking why. I'm expecting that when I tell my T she will jump straight in to trying understand why I felt that way and what I felt, and I feel that ll I will want is sympathy.
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I'm not sure I understand here. What is your definition if empathy? To me empathy is what I see in T's face and feel in her presence. Sympathy is a rather detached emotion. A "aaww poor you" before someone continued on their way. Where as empathy is T actually meeting me in where I am and being with me in that moment.
The 'jumping in', hasn't really happened. T gently peels away beneath it, but it's a sequence. Not a violent miss matching.