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Old Nov 07, 2007, 12:43 AM
Hopefull Hopefull is offline
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My T has client after client. I think she has around seven people a day. I see her walk out to the waiting room as I return to the same room and watch her get another client. This makes it hard for her to do things like phone messages or remember things. I had my birthday in January of this year and my T didn't even remember until I told her. I told her that I am terrible at face recognition and this interferes with my ability to make freinds and fit in at places. Does she remember? No. What is here thoughts on this? She says that she thinks its anxiety. I think to myself "Why do I have trouble understanding movies that have a lot of characters? If it is anxiety, then it shouldn't show up in this situation. But it does." Later I present to her information about the concept of "faceblindness" that she had never heard of. Does she look it up on-line? Nope. I did at least an hours worth of research to share with her and my support group and she doesn't even look in to it. Also related to the fact that she doesn't have much time for progress notes and paper work, she has annoyed me some with that. One time she started writing in my file and I wanted to take the file a way from her to make her look at me. I also joked to myself about climbing under the file to try to make eye contact with her. Another time, she pulled a sticker from somewhere and stuck it somewhere else in the file. I couldn't hold a conversation with her while she did that. One time, she left someone else's progress note sitting out on her desk. I sat off to the side of the desk instead of on the couch and kept glancing at it. I wanted to read it. I mean I'm studying addiction counseling and I would have loved to see how she writes progress notes but I couldn't because it was private to that client. However, it ruined our conversation because it distracted me which made it so that I couldn't remember much of what we said. My T's lips get dry all the time. I will be talking to her and this tongue just comes out. It distracts from the conversation until she gets her water or chapstick. As you might be able to guess, I have known her for two years which is long enough to have quite a list. But, she is ssssoooo sweet for the most part.