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Just a quick story I know people in here will appreciate. I saw my therapist yesterday, and when she came out to her waiting room to get me, she told me to go back to her office and she would be right back. (She had to go out to her car). Well, I walked back and sat down, but she was gone for a good 5 minutes..........

.......and I totally thought of taking a bunch of photos of her office with my cell phone!! it was SO tempting. But I am really trying hard not to give in to the pervasive thoughts I have of her, so I did not. I still laughed a little to myself inside, of course I didn't tell her what I had just thought of doing. No, I did not have a look around at her desk or anything like that, but it was just hilarious to me knowing how long I was there completely alone....like she enabled an addict or something. And I had just told her a few weeks ago how attached I was to her! In any event, I'm glad she trusts me.

haha. Anyone else get "left alone" like this?? What did you do?

[granite1]

never but i bet if i was i would be to afraid to move off my chair lol

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Originally Posted by granite1

never but i bet if i was i would be to afraid to move off my chair lol

Oh, I stayed in my seat the whole time...I was able to hold it together

[zooropa]

oh wow, I never thought of taking a picture of Ts office. Now I will probably be obsessed with getting an opportunity to do that, lol!

How weird would that be, to see her office in a photo, that place where I've spent so many hours and been in so much pain, and grown and changed and healed so much?

[sunrise]

Originally Posted by with or without you

Anyone else get "left alone" like this?? What did you do?

Yes, I've been left alone a number of times and didn't have thoughts of doing anything near as entertaining as yours. I think I usually just sit there and think or look around at things on his walls. Or I think about what I am going to talk about that day with him. He has a big stack of books on the floor near where we sit, so sometimes I have looked at those. They always seem to be the same books--he keeps them there for reference? In this way I discovered that we share some of the same favorite poets, and we have talked about that.

[Izzyparker]

YES! And I did walk to her desk and poked around. I too had thoughts of taking photos. I wish I had more time to actually sit at her desk and look around. I only had a brief minute or two. The first time she left me alone I didn't move an inch from my seat. This time, I thought, "what the heck?". But there wasn't anything interesting to see: hand lotion, ugly note pad, kleenex, etc.

[WePow]

My T leaves me alone at the start sometimes becuase he runs to the restroom. One time he had to make a call to another client and I asked him if he wanted me to go out and wait for him but he said no and left me in the office with the door closed and him in the other room. I thought about looking at his open laptop but then felt bad just thinking about taking a peek. So I sat motionless until he returned. :-)

[geez]

I've been alone in my T's office for maybe a minute or two on occasion. I have taken a peak around at some papers but touched nothing (never saw anything worth reporting )

i would i think take a picture of the spot on his floor where i always stare, maybe???

okay, probably not, too chicken of getting caught...

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I told my therapist about this the other night. I told her exactly what was going on in my internal monologue - "OHmygod...Dr. Awesome is leaving me alone in her office, this is amazing!" and then I told her "stop giving me crack, you know how attached I feel to you!" and she laughed. She told me that yes, she does have a lot of confidential materials on her desk, and she does not trust every client to be alone in her office. That made me feel special, LOL

[SpiritRunner]

Originally Posted by with or without you

I told my therapist about this the other night. I told her exactly what was going on in my internal monologue - "OHmygod...Dr. Awesome is leaving me alone in her office, this is amazing!" and then I told her "stop giving me crack, you know how attached I feel to you!" and she laughed. She told me that yes, she does have a lot of confidential materials on her desk, and she does not trust every client to be alone in her office. That made me feel special, LOL

and it should make you feel special, because you are trusted!

[Sunshine73]

I haven't ever been left alone in T private office, but I have been left alone out in the waiting area / receptionist area with her gone and I am to frightened to even look at the books and magazines that are out there for people to browse - I don't know why - I just feel like I will be "caught" but that makes no sense because they are obviously out there for people to look at ..... I think it is really awesome when a T gives that extra trust! I always call it extra trust because if it isn't given to everyone - then it is oh so special!

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...she also told me she's not going anywhere, she'll be here as she's always been.

[Mike_J]

Well you can't be seeing "Dr. Awesome" because she is my therapist?????

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Originally Posted by Mike_J

Well you can't be seeing "Dr. Awesome" because she is my therapist?????

LOL she is mine only.

[BlackCanary]

how pathetic am I? If I were left alone, I'd probably pull out my phone and surf or play a game. Where has all my curiosity gone???

[skeksi]

At the end of a hard session, I asked for a few minutes to pull myself together and stop dissociating. T said sure, but he had to go the the bathroom really badly (lol), and to walk myself out if I didn't mind.

As soon as he left I realized I was alone with my file and all his stuff. It completely spooked me and I rushed outside and decompressed in my car, instead.

[Kacey2]

I was once in t's office during a dbt skills training where I had to take many breaks at first. He told me I could go into his office when I needed to leave. I did and there were all these charts in there. Of course I didn't look at them but then he must have thought about it because he came in and took them out. I was up once throwing away a tissue in the garbage can and it was right next to his desk so I was about 5 feet away from the chair. He came in and I thought OMGosh he is going to think I was snooping. I took a dive back to the chair just as someone who was caught 'red handed' would do. I didn't even do anything!

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Originally Posted by Kacey2

He came in and I thought OMGosh he is going to think I was snooping. I took a dive back to the chair just as someone who was caught 'red handed' would do. I didn't even do anything!

haha, that's great.....lunge for the chair