I had another bad week before this session. I've been treated very badly by someone close to me. I've talked with my therapist before about this person and it feels like this subject dominates most of my sessions these days. I want to change this in the future but right now I'm just coping.

So I came in and told T the most recent bad stuff as best I could. Because the whole incident - past few days even— have been traumatic I could only get it out in bits and pieces. I was verbally abused and emotionally manipulated.

My therapist was immediately angry at this person for me. She was even cursing. Despite myself I had to smile because it was a little out of character for her.

I guess, I want to be flattered but it felt a bit odd. It felt more like a canned response. Later I found myself questioning if this was real emotion or just a method. It felt more in part to show me this is an appropriate response while I'm in a state of post-traumatic shock and able to get there myself.

I can and really do appreciate the sentiment, (You should be and are allow be angry about this!) but I just wonder why I'm questioning the 'realness' of her emotion.

Or Maybe it just feels odd because I can't quite feel that myself right now? I've always had a problem getting in touch with anger when I need it.

Does you t ever get angry * for * you?