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Originally Posted by nottrustin
What would you do if you have 2 people who have a role. I have 2 sons and 2 brothers, 2 best friends.. at one point I would refer to my sons as my oldest and youngest son. I found it could be confusion putting all the details together. Early in therapy a lot of my issues revolved around parenting and behavioral issues. From week to week T had a hard time remembering which was which. Using their names made a huge difference
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Good question. I add a descriptor relevant to why I'm talking about them in the first place - Dead Aunt, Nice Aunt, Schizophrenic Aunt, etc. It doesn't matter that my Dead Aunt is named Joan, it matters because she's dead and I'm sad about it. (for instance)
T would never remember that Aunt Joan is the dead one.
But it only now occurs to me that this is kind of convoluted/wordy. I can see why one would use names in such a situation.