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Originally Posted by ElectricManatee
As for transitional objects, I have done stuff that's way "weirder" than holding my transitional object, like making a weird little therapy scrapbook, for one. Holding the object is kind of the point, isn't it? My T knows that I have had mine in my pocket every day since she gave it to me, which was over a year ago. She has also given me supplemental objects, held onto the object to recharge it, and taken it on vacation with her, at my request. If holding it is weird, then I have crossed over into the truly bizarre. And my T doesn't seem to mind at all.
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Maybe I'll have to join you in bizarre then. I have two kleenex from his office that I've been carrying around in my hoodie pocket for about a year now. Not used, I promise! When I'm feeling stressed, it helps to know they're in my pocket and if I need to I can put my hand in my pocket to touch them. I also have kept every parking receipt for the last 22 months, since I started seeing him, except for public holidays when I don't have to pay for street parking. That started because I didn't want my husband to know I was in therapy at first and would stick them in a pocket in my backpack. Later I didn't want him to know where the office was located and it just turned into a thing. I showed him the stack of them one day and I think he was amused in a good way. He suggested writing what we talked about on the back of each one, but they're really too small to do that, maybe only a little over an inch square piece of paper.