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Originally Posted by Echos Myron redux
Oh I often wish this a lot. I often fantasise about sharing other parts of my life with him but the therapy hour is only big enough for the therapy parts of me and I rarely have the time or energy to share other parts of myself in therapy.
The thing I probably feel most acutely is the place I know our interests overlap - our professional interests. Sometimes we do talk about them a bit; sometimes it feels good, sometimes it feels weird for one or both of us. We talk about the weirdness (then it becomes therapy again).
Other things I wish I could share with him include music, random poetry, radio comedy, political ideas, general philosophical ideas and so on. When I think of those things I often imagine discussing them with him.
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This is pretty much EXACTLY how I feel! There’s so much ***** that I really need therapy for that I don’t want to waste the hour on other stuff. But yet somehow that stuff feels important too, although I can’t get myself to go there.
It’s not as if we never joke or have lighter moments, it definitely happens at times and he’s nowhere near a blank slate, but I guess we just don’t really go in-depth with the non-therapy stuff.
I really relate to your post because our professional lives are where my T and I overlap as well, since I am an intern conducting therapy with my own clients. I think he gets excited sometimes to talk about theories or other more “textbook” therapy stuff lol.