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Old Jul 11, 2017, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by unaluna View Post
Of course you want your t to fail. You want to change the script and have a happy ending. Great. Thats one down. Now you only have to change the rest of the world.

Or - you change yourself, and get along better with the rest of the world.
I dunno, Una. I get the fallacy of trying to change the world but there is something to be said for that much-vaunted safe holding environment that therapy is supposed to provide, precisely so that you can come to terms with the fact that you can't change the world.

I do think an authentically unfazed response from a T is critical. In the absence of that, it is rather hard to say where a therapeutic relationship ends and a "real" (read dysfunctional) relationship begins.

(Or maybe I'm just over-sensitive, now that I seem to have chewed through two Ts in short order.)
Thanks for this!
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