Cute things your T has said/done?

Last week my counselor and I were talking about depression and everything, and she was saying how sometimes it's important to just let yourself be depressed, and just stay in the moment. She described it as being a puddle. Then she said "sometimes you just need to be a puddle, and d*** it, be the best puddle you can be." It made me laugh!

t took the flower cutting from the vase on her shelf and sent me home with it as well as a painted wooden frog (to borrow) and the usual crystal she sends me with during her vacations. I am moving and having a rough time of it, so this was a pick-me-up and reminders that she cares.

My therapist and I were discussing my erotic transference today and why I am feeling it with him and I did not with my past therapist. He said, "Is it something I am doing? Is it the work we are doing in here...the progress you feel like you have made? Is it something about where you are in your life right now? Is it my sweaters?"

Um, lol...seeing as they are the somewhat bad, cotton, patterned, too-large sweaters, no, beloved T, it ISN'T that.

hahahaha LOL!!! cute!

My counseller text me a few times during the insane snow storms we were having to tell me to wrap up warm

I went to the coffeeshop between classes yesterday, and right as I walked through the back door T walked through the front, we both stopped and then she started waving at me and gave me a hug. It was nice to see T was so happy to see me, even if it was a random bump into each other at the coffeeshop

t from 4 years ago came to visit me in my new place today - make sure I am ok, looked around to fix broken things, and brought me potted tulips for my place =) we had tea- she stayed for 2 hours and said she'd be back lots, if I would have her.

aww thats sweet kiya!

mine is small and simple, but still made me smile. i wrote my T an e-mail today to let her know i was going to be reading a journal entry today. i struggle big time with opening up in therapy, and it is getting beyond frustrating. its been going on for 2+ years now. so i thought if i wrote her, it would hold me more accountable or something. i told her that it wasn't going to be easy for me, but i wanted her to know i do want to read it.

she wrote me back this evening.

Well - my t gave my alter "Little One" a small stuffed heart. :-) He had given us the precious HOPE stone we keep on us at all times. But Little One is so playful and really is doing well with positive bonding - which gives our whole system a HUGE sense of security and trust in our T. He looked so innocent and even shy about giving us the heart. But Little One has been clinging to it and takes it out when we have an anxiety attack so we can hold it and know we are not alone. :-)

I don't know if this exactly fits in the cute category as it was more of a Freudian slip than anything else. But I wanted to share it anyway because it was a bright spot in a hard session.

I had apologized to T for putting her on the spot about a diagnosis since I could see that it was uncomfortable for her and she was seeming to fumble around to try and avoid answering my question. In response to my apology she said that I didn't need to worry about her as "I can take care of you." I'm pretty sure that she meant to say 'I can take care of me'. I don't even know if she noticed as she just kept on talking without even a pause.

I really liked this thread and thought I'd bring it back to life.

In my last session, the dog of my t had a bad cough. The dog kept coughing throughout like half the session and at some point, my t told me to wait for a second that he could give the dog a little bit of honey to soothe it.

"if I have to sit and listen to you one more time. I'm going to need therapy"

He said he was brining bubbles next week so that he could blow bubbles with me.

The woman never said or did anything cute.
I would have hated it if she tried to do so.

Cute? No. Cute makes me think of baby rabbits, and of little girls in pink dresses with wide eyes.

Kind, funny (in jokes), funny (in 'stupidity' - seriously, using F11 is sort of a basic computer thingy. Even if you never use full screen, most at least know how to reverse it.), nice, comforting, the occasional perfect reaction/response/reply, above-and-beyond the call of duty but not above professionalism - sure. Sweet, even. But not /cute/.

"A kid might think he saw a crocodile below the bed and really believe there is a crocodile there! So a good parent should check under the bed and then say 'See, there really IS a crocodile there'... wait... no, that's not the right thing to say."

I like telling this story I think I have before.

At the treatment center I met t in we would go on walks. For some reason we lifted a water pipe lid in the ground one day and found a black widow in a nest in there. Every so often we'd check on her. Sometimes she'd have egg sacks with her. It became kind of a ritual for us to check on her. This went on for months

One day they were doing work around that building. We decided to peek in on her and she was gone ! She never showed back up. I texted t one night saying i missed our spider. T sent back "it's ok, she has a show in Vegas now"

so brave of you, my T and I would have been running away from that. Very nice reply from him

That's great, jDNA....good to know your T has such a great sense of humour.

I'm a librarian, and T and I often talk about books, and recommend them to each other. Sometimes we even loan them to each other.

do you know the song passenger by iggy pop?

well, one of my old therapist's jane (for some reason), always played that song at the start and at the end of the sessions and try to encourage me to bounce and smile.

before she left she gave me a cd of that song, so I'll always remember her (I don't have it now though, it broke)

yes, broke (aqa snapped in 2)

jane also introduced me to pepermint tea. she used it if I was feeling overly stressed

That would drive me scatoid, SS...to have a T inflict their musical taste. Not surprised the CD ended up snapped in two. Hope the peppermint tea has been more useful.

That's both kinda cool (love that song!) and...weird. The idea of a song being played at start and end of session seems like a TV show or something.

thats funny

I’m in a treatment program so I also take some groups with my T. She really likes to mess with me during class and I give it right back to her. So one time she was messing with me over something and I turned to the other people in the group (all of which happened not to have her as their T) and said “see how mean she is to me!?!” in jest, of course. And then she joked back: “Aww, you poor thing. Why don’t you sing your woes about it to your therapist!? OH WAIT!”

I was dying laughing. I absolutely love our relationship.