Cute things your T has said/done?

My former psychologist, whom I'd been seeing for a year & a half (I see a different one now because my former one had something happen ) said I'm one of her favorites. I really miss & love her, but the one I see now is good, too. I like her.

T said "I'm not trying to get rid of you Kiya". Granted, it wasn't a cute or "warm fuzzy" moment - but I sure needed to hear it.

This happened a few months ago, but I just recently remembered it. I forgot to turn my phone off before my appointment, so it randomly vibrated in my pocket at one point. I silenced it and apologized, and T said "Oh, that's okay...I could barely hear it." I looked at her and said "Come on, T...the vibrate is louder than the ringer on this thing." She gave me a "busted" look, and we continued. It was kind of funny.

Then a few weeks ago, her phone randomly rings in the middle of our session, so she shuffles over to her desk and turns it off. It was such a normal thing, but it was just funny that she forgot to turn it off.

When something really awful had happened, I had forgotten to go to sleep the night before and I had not eaten anything. I realized these things while sitting in therapy and said, "I haven't slept or eaten since yesterday!" and T went over to his desk, pulled out this loaf of carrot cake his wife had baked, broke it in two and handed me half and we sat there and ate our loaves of carrot cake together, by hand (no forks available!). That was so sweet. I felt like T was taking care of me in so many ways.

Awwww! That is really, really sweet!

Whenever I talk about my best friend, T ALWAYS pronounces her name wrong. I let it slide, cause it's too cute/funny.

This is how we star off our session today:

T: *walks in* *pauses* *looks up* Is the music in the waiting room different today?

I guess it doesn't sound like much being written out, but it was sorta funny when she did it.

TOnight in clinic community dinner T said hi kiya (because she knows i never say hello w/o the visual cue from her that it is ok to). She chatted easily about things that were in my emails (letting me know she read them). Then later, i told her "I get a point! I said hello to someone i didn't know!" (this has been my homework lol) she said "I think you get more then *a* point! You get 10 points!" Heee! and THEN when the speaker was talking about food and health and asked "Does anyone here know about 'fight or flight'?" My hand *shoots* into the air (Hermione-ish) while I am looking at my plate. I had no idea T was walking toward me at the time. T sees this and *cracks* up laughing LOL =) it was a good night... very rare for me. Oh yeah, one more nice thing.... I had been painting prior to dinner and told her about it. She said she'd like to see it. Well at the end, i got that chance to show her my in-progress watercolor and she really liked it; studied it, touched it, commented a lot on it... =)

ugh I don't know if this is cute of T, but really more just wonderful...

I'm about to have my last sessions next Thursday and I'm really struggling with it. As a treat, my T asked if I wanted her to bring her dog (she tells me stories about it and relates them to my life ha) and of course I said yes because I love dogs so much and never get to see them so I get to meet and hang out with T's dog!

Today at pdoc's, the whole session seemed to revolve around the fact that I will be 18 in a month. So at one point he turned to me and said, "So, soon-to-be-18-year-old-person, what do you think?" It was amusing.

So, my T is pretty reserved and is good about not sharing much personal reaction to anything that's going on with me, but I was recently having a hard time with my pdoc and so T asked if I had any difficulties with T as well. It was a "normal" therapy question to ask, but it was cute that her tone implied that she was personally interested as well. Also, the last time I saw her we were working through some of my family issues. She finished by saying, "Your mom is a real piece of work!" I thought it was hilarious.

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That is so sweet. Hang in there - I know this must be an incredibly hard time for you

that is great mightaswelllive - I am sorry your sessions are finishing let me know if i can help ok P7

awww... that's awesome, mighty!!! what a special session it will be for you .

from last week's session with pdoc: pdoc always get phone calls through our sessions on his mobile. everytime it rings he will groan and say how much he hates his ring tone. i told him last time that he should change it, and he said his phone was too old (it IS a really old phone... doesn't even have a camera!), but i said every phone at least has the generic, old-style 'ring ring' on it, and that's what i have because all the tune type ones annoy me. so last friday his phone rang and he had changed it, and you could tell he was waiting to see if i had noticed and he was all proud of himself for having done so. i told him we were mobile ring twins now. the next time it rang he let it sit on the table for a little while before answering it, just to enjoy the new ringtone. he's funny.

my T laughs at my ring tone which is a dog bark. Her laugh is loud and i like making her laugh. T keeps all the things i draw write give her it makes me feel really good. She has a painting i did for her displayed in her office. She does many nice cute things. We went for a walk one day and T grabbed hold of my arm because she thought i was going to step in front of a car. I was just going to stand in the gutter of the road. It was funny.

Man, my T is the best!

T: "It would be interesting to put cameras up in your dad's house to see how he handles a newborn...you know...since he hasn't changed a diaper in 18 years."

Oooh, I'm sorry I missed this thread-- I love these kinds, so I'm bringing this one back to life.

Over four years, my T has said/done more endearing things than I could even recount. I'm trying to think of the most recent...

On Monday, I banned him from using the words "Okay, Right, Wrong, Good, and Bad." (Our therapy has become quite focused on the practice of mindfulness and ambiguity. It is good, but it is very new for me).

He says these words so much when referring to the ambiguity of emotions (ex: It's okay to feel that way. It's not good; it's not bad; it just is). That kind of stuff. So on Monday he was driving me absolutely mad with his existential, ambiguous crap, lol. So I banned him from these words and he spent the rest of the session trying to come up with synonyms whenever he wanted to refer to those things. It was very cute to watch him stumble over the words, trying to find different synonyms. At one point I told him, "This is all ****ed up. It's ****ing me up." And T said, "Well it's ****ing me up, too, so maybe us being ****ed up is what's resonating between us now."

peace.

I love your T pinksoil - he sounds funny

LOL I wish my T would say something like that

wooh, pinky!! i have missed your stories about T .

Austin-T set a schedule in his phone to send me a text every day next week telling me to get out of bed and study for my big exam on Thursday (i've been sleeping and avoiding uni work). i really like him. he's terribly unconventional, but i like that he doesn't mind helping me any way that he can.

Thanks, pinksoil, for reviving this thread - I love it!

Last week, I told my T that I had considered, during a low 24-hour period, quitting therapy. She looked at me like and said "So, what - **** it? Just throw in the towel?" I reassured her that the thought had passed.

I have to bring this thread back...I have more T cuteness! This was our exchange.

T: You just need to be good to yourself...treat yourself to something...you need to take extra care of yourself.
Me: This sounds like a Starbucks day.
T: YES! EXACTLY! I knew you understood what I was saying.

I thought this was cute, because T and I both have a love affair with Starbucks!

sounds vaguely familiar. but when I told my t that, she just stared at me, usual frown in place.... then reminded me to use all my skills. that may be the phrase i have to ban T from using. "Use all your skills!!" every session...

oh something endearing.... she said to me that i never tell her things, that i may email her but i don't *tell* her. between that, "use all your skills" and the concept of trying to do something away from mom, I went to the beach yesterday. ALONE. and had a blast. On the beach, with the waves beating the shore behind me, I called T and left a message: "OK! i'm TELLING you - I left town without mom and went to the beach!" and told her all about the beautiful weather, the half moon hanging in the robin's egg blue sky, and the shells/stones i was collecting. Then said "ok i TOLD you, so there you go!"

Kiya, yeah I didn't like when my T said to use my "cognitive skills". I'd rather just tell her how I feel!

Cute things: I still can't think of any. She's not a "cute" type person. She does so many nice things, but they aren't cute.

Me: I love that shirt, it's cute!

T: Thank you, I thought of you when I was putting it on today because I
have seen you wear flowy shirts like this.

I thought it was cute that she thought of me outside of session