Cute things your T has said/done?

oh thats really sweet possum

My T has made the stuffie dog that i use in therapy talk too. Its really funny. Does your T ure a funny voice.

Awwwww... I truly love this thread

My T has also bought a stuffed teddy bear that i call dudley. I sometimes bring him to session, but he mostly lives at home T has also bought me souvenirs from her vacations as well

Most recently T said," Sw628 I want and would like very much for you to attach to me".

Last session, while I was crying, T said to me "Feel the energy of YOUR armadillo". The armadillo is really hers, and she's let me hold on to him for 9 months now. She's never said "your armadillo" before. She did buy a tiny monkey for me from Africa whose feet are magnetic and wants me to feel his energy - speaking up for myself - and usually refers to him. This was new - maybe I will get to keep Benedict afterall. =) She did say a long time ago that she was glad he was getting some attention, since he's been sitting under an end table with a demented looking squirrle and gathering dust. Now days, he gathers tears

No my P'doc doesn't give Sebastian a voice, but recently he did give Sebastian a mission. My p'doc whispered in Sebastian's ear "Turn the computer off" We both laughed. He often tells Sebastian he is doing a good job.

A while ago I had to have a day stay in hospital and I said to my pdoc - "I cant take Sebastian in there because people will think I am weird" A 47yo with a stuffie? So my p'doc bought me a small furry wombat attached to a keyring that I could take in. The wombats name is Willie.

just reading through this it made me smile. Want to revive it. Anyone got posts for this?

I was getting nervous from my T watching me do a relaxation training exercise and couldn't do it with her watching. She asked if it would be better if she closed her eyes and I said yes! Then I watched her tell me what to do, and demonstrate it for me, all with her eyes closed. It was really cute.

Thanks for reviving this crystal.

I made T promise he would close his eyes while he led me through relaxation techniques. When we got to the part where I was supposed to be making funny faces, I peeked--and sure enough, he was doing it, too! That made me feel tons less self-conscious.

I love just being able to make my T laugh...I don't know why, but it makes me feel good, not only that she's laughing, but that I said/did something that caused that reaction.

this is probably my favorite thread
one time I was having heaps of trouble telling her something. So to my surprise T took me for a walk around the office in the "garden". when i eventually said that I think I'll be able to write it out, T said "oh you want to write it in the dirt? i'll find a stick! or perhaps some chalk, hold on a second...."

apparently she really wanted to stay outside I wish we did... but if I'd written what I'd wanted to write in the soil with a stick I would have been mortified LOL

My old T (gosh, I miss her so much!) was so kind. I didn't have much money at the time, and usually went w/o eating lunch during my lunch break when I saw T. She started getting her lunch out (just yogurt and fruit) and sharing it with me. It became part of what we did each session. It somehow broke the ice, and made it easier to talk (also, I wasn't starving!!).

My new T doesn't share much of anything, especially food! But she has a stiff, quirky sense of humor. Last session, we were talking about the subconscious, and I lamented how hard it was to have these things I felt were out of my control. She said "well, if it wasn't for the subconscious, I'd be out of a job". So true. It doesn't sound funny here, but it was at the moment.

This is such a nice thread.

I really miss my CPN (psychiatric nurse) who I saw weekly for over a year. She said lots of things that really helped, I felt she was always looking out for my best interests. I called her once when we had moved here and I was really touched that all the staff remembered me and ran around to find her and get her to the phone.

My new T made me feel very cared for when she told me I could call as I was having a break for a few weeks for various reasons. I haven't called, of course, because I tend to feel it's my job to keep going between appointments - hate to think of being a burden to anyone.

I feel like I NEVER get to post in this thread...mostly because I keep my T at arms' length, and because she is more neutral than others on here.

BUT, I e-mailed her on tuesday asking if maybe I could see her thursday morning (my normal time...but I'm on every other week right now) because I have been stressing out about something she said last week. She had hte slot open, so I went in today.

It took almost the ENTIRE session for me to get out this two sentence thing. It was pure torture. What I wanted to tell her was how I've been talking about me still getting nervous before session, and why I think it is...and last session I told her more in depth on that I am afraid she'll get sick of me some day and kick me out. And her response was "It seems like you're pushing me to do that."

It seemed ok at the time, but over the weekend and into the beginning of this week I was REALLY freaking out. Like if I ever bring up that topic again, she WILL get sick of me. I will push her into it.

I am soooooooo sooo sooooooo afraid of confrontation, that I think I e-mailed her in a moment of insanity to make an extra session. She knew I wanted to talk about something and told me that I can say anything I want to her. God, the words just could not come out. She at some point said "That I can't speak my mind without being terrified of the consequences"...and I guess thats sorta true. I don't know.

Somewhere near the end I finally managed to stammer out what I (mostly) wanted to say. She goes "Have I ever made you feel like I was fed up? Did you feed off some energy like I was?" And she was genuinely curious and not defensive at all! I told her that I didn't think so but I am afraid that one day I WILL cross this invisible boundary and make her upset.

At some point I was just so ridiculously frustrated with myself that I flung myself about on the couch (haha) and said "I don't know how to get through this! I do NOT think I can do it" She said (oh so confidently), "You can do it. I think you really want to do it. The only way through is just to jump in."

She's right, but it is SO hard. She distinguished the difference between her sometimes being frustrated that she couldn't help me more in feeling more able to open up, and its those times where she suggests maybe someone else will help--because all therapists think that from time to time. She just wants to get me the best care possible. It is NOT getting fed up. It was the end, and she goes very seriously and genuinely

"I'm not going anywhere, Velcro" She has said this a few times, but maybe it was because it was the last thing she said..or because it was such a hard session for me, but I believed her.

I got in the car and realized we went TEN minutes over! That has NEVER happened in the two years I've seen her. I think she didn't want me to say what I wanted to say and walk out the door...and make sure I was ok.

I hope this can help open that steel door a tiny, teensy crack.

velcro That sounds like some really hard work and a great step toward healing - congrats!!!

I baked holiday goodies for my office's holiday potluck. I decided to go ahead and prepare a bag of goodies for T. So I took it into her this week, told her I didn't know if this was appropriate, but I had some cookies. I asked her, "Is this okay?", and she looked all excited! I thought she'd just put the bag away, but she proceeded to pull out each kind of baked good (I think there were 4 kinds in there) and have me tell her what it was, or she made comments, like "These cookies are cute!" And then she came to the chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips, and her eyes got really wide... we both realized that we share a passion for any kind of chocolate-peanut butter combo! So it was a really great way to start my session.

Thanks dream!!! It WAS hard-now if I can let her in little by little...we will see.

I think one day I would love to bake my T something! I baked my physical therapist's brownies when I finished with them a few years ago.

velcro - i had my t go over 10mins with me about a month back. i've never done that with any T (and i've been seeing them on/off for 9 years!). pdoc is different, but that's because sometimes i see him for 20mins, sometimes for 75.

but i relate to that little 10mins feeling good. and cared for. important enough not to be thrown out.

my "cuteness" contribution is that austin-t has taken to calling me "girlfriend" and "missy". he screams gay anyway, but i kind of lol that he's dropping his last vestige of professionalism with me.

haha! that is cute.

This is the best thread EVER!!! Thank you all for the wonderful sharing! I have not laughed this much in years!!! WONDERFUL !!!

I have only known my T for 6 months now, but so far the cutest thing I have seen was during session at some point he was watching me and he smiled so big! He looked like a little boy! It was such a big and pure smile from his soul. I don't even think I was saying anything good - just the normal babble I tend to do - more like ramble from one topic to another. But he was all ears and then smiled that way and his whole face lit up! I didn't stop to ask him what it was that he found so delightful... but I will never forget that look !!

aw thats sweet wpowers. I can relate to that. When I take a while to talk and look awkward, pdoc just gives eye contact and a nice smile. I also think its great when I can make pdoc laugh.

I was talking about something in T, and used the phrase "diluted sarcasm" to describe some of my behavior. She got all excited, and said she was going to make a note to use it at least once in general conversation in the next week.

T always says hello to my little stuffed ox I bring with me, she says "Hi Leroy ready for therapy" it makes me laugh

T also made me a pot of coffee one session, I meationed how I loved coffee so she got up and made me a cup

Awwww, it's nice when T takes care of you like that!

I was in session recently and I mentioned that I was hungry and my stomach was growling, and T offered me food! He had all different kinds of nuts, and some crackers, and something else I can't remember. I told him I'd just wait until after session - I can't imagine sitting there with T and eating But I was surprised he offered, and thought it was sweet.

It's more of an awwwwwww thing, but today we were discussing something pretty horrible going on in my life at the moment, and she said "this is one of those things that I wish more than anything that I could change."

At the beginning of my last session, my T started off by saying she kept thinking about me this week and how after last session she was just having all these positive feelings about me and where I am now. And she kind of kept repeating herself and seemed a little embarrassed and then said she was even going to call me after the last session to tell me this, but she didn't want to weird me out! Just thought it was cute that sometimes Ts want to call us too but aren't sure if it's OK.

I have some issues with the mental health profession. Once I was on a rant and kept saying to my T something to the effect of, "you know I'm right, you might well admit it".

Finally he moved his head like he was avoiding punches and said, "You are just slapping me around today". It was so funny, I just cracked up laughing.

It's been a real pick me up to read back through this thread. One thing my T does at least every other session is sing. T is really a pretty good singer, but, even so, I just want to put my fingers in my ears and disappear. Stop, stop, stop. It's too embarrassing