I think it's a less muted version of what I see in session. She is probably a lot more emotional and caring than she shows me. She is uncharactersically empathetic and caring about someone I barely know who has cancer--like, infinitely more so than anything to do with me, even though this is someone on the outer fringes of my life. She is always making sure I don't do or say anything to upset this person, which I most certainly do not--and that makes me think she and/or someone close to her has dealt with cancer. It sometimes makes me feel like a non person when I see that caring side of her and it's for someone she hasn't even met and that I barely know. On the other end of things, I have seen flashes of her anger, although she calls it being frustrated. And she gets triggered around a topic I try to bring up around sexual orientation, so there is something there that pisses her off about me, but she won't say what, just that I don't know everything. So yeah...I think she is just more herself in lots of ways and not as modulated and toned down as she is in session.
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