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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
AY - I don't think it is quite the same. Your therapist seems to be doing pacification/placation in an oddly social way - white lies greasing the wheels of your exchanges so that she looks good or gets herself off the hook, etc.
An example would be this exchange with CW (early conversation on the Smaug episode):
CW: I think you reacted as you did because it triggered an earlier life experience.
ATAT: That's possible, but you know, just because an event does that, doesn't mean the event isn't horrible in and of itself.
CW: Oh, no. Of course not.
(And then we go on to talk about how I feel about the whole episode.)
So she sees the possibility of a confrontation and although she doesn't retract her opinion or make excuses for herself or any attempt at conciliation (in fact I know she still holds that opinion), she stops pushing it.
Maybe Pennster has a better example.
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Ah, that makes sense. And, in your example, I can actually see why CW would consider it a valid strategy to not push (considering that it was the Smaug episode) -- it would be interesting to see if she adopts the same strategy for significantly less distressing stuff?
Yeah, you're bang on -- I have picked up on current T being weirdly social but didn't know if my radar was going off mostly because I'm so anti-social myself.
Umm.......don't bop me but if it came down to my life depending on picking a channel, I'd pick the BBC.