About books: my therapist has a lot of books in her office, but when I asked her what she would recommend for me, she said she couldn't think of any. That was about a year ago. I recently asked again, reminding her that she had said she couldn't think of any and how she is the first therapist to not recommend books at the drop of a hat. I said I thought I wasn't worth a book recommendation, but would try again. She said I was worth many book recommendations, and was sorry I was left with that feeling. I guess she had wanted to avoid triggering me with a book at the time. Anyway, she suggested some that I mostly shot down, but there was one I was interested in because of the brain science part. I started reading it one afternoon and fell into an almost instant sleep--which is a trigger response of mine. Anyway, I still don't see the harm if I had read it a year ago. It was worse thinking she had all those books and couldn't think of one for me.

Then again, she knows that I would shoot down all the gooey, positive ones, and it would have wasted my session time to rant about them.