I brought it up directly after my T said that I wasn't comfortable acknowledging my connection to her.
So, the next session, I thought 'Hey, let me be super brave and have an episode of uncontrolled verbal diarrhea about how screwed up I feel in / about / what's happening in therapy...'. Not a good idea. At all. For me that is.
It was excruciatingly embarrassing and I ended up in an incredibly awkward, confused, super irritated and not-sure-where-things-are place at the end of the session -- I don't think that has as much to do with the relationship or my T (sure, that may contribute to it a bit) as my issues in talking about stuff like that.
Thankfully, at the next session, T didn't bring it up explicitly but referred to some of the issues I'd mentioned -- so, we talked about my problems generally but that was it. Whew!
So, I think it'll be a looooooooooooooooooong time before I talk about it like that again....if ever!
P.S. Needless to say, I don't remotely mean this to be a discouragement to anyone else who's considering doing it -- this is just a manifestation of my specific neuroses!
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