What is the craziest thing your T has asked you to do for therapy

We all know that therapy can take many forms...and have many seemingly crazy treatments.
What is the craziest thing your T has asked you to do?

For me, one thing leaps to mind:

We were working on getting some of my anger out regarding an exploitation that happened to me by a previous PDoc.
I was inpatient and my previous GoodT took me to a room. The room contained two chairs and a bat. She called the bat a "bataca." It was a bat with foam wrapped around it. GoodT wanted me to pick up the bataca and hit her with it.

I liked GoodT...I didn't want to hit her. . She kept encouraging me to hit her. I looked down at the bataca and almost reached for it. But it was red! I'm sorry if it is tmi, but the handle reminded me of a penis.
I couldn't touch it!

Your turn...What's the craziest thing your T has asked you to do in therapy?

I would be really concerned in that situation too. There's something to be said for not hitting people that seems like an excellent idea 99.9% of the time.... the other .01% being where someone might be attacking me.

When I feel getting anger out physically will help, I do other things, even hit boxes or throw things safely, where no one is around, couldn't imagine hitting any person.

She hasn't asked me to do much, it's not that type of therapy, so I'd say it was when she told me I could ask my husband to do a lot more of the housework, haha, bit of a mind bender at first.

Not exactly crazy but T asked me to pretend my dead Mom and Dad were in the room and talk to them. Give out to them to be exact about my less than nice upbringing.
I am not good at acting or pretending anything and the idea of talking to folks that are not their just would not work. I managed about 10 words before saying 'this is nuts'

The woman once tried to convince me to tell my father how I felt about something. Sheer madness.
She also, and very incorrectly and off-basedly - tried to tell me how my father, a man she has never met, would react to something recently. She was quite wrong about how he indeed did react and I was quite right in my prediction and concern. So perhaps the craziest thing she does is ask me to let her talk when she is always wrong and dismissive of what I know will happen. I am somewhat looking forward to telling her how very wrong she was and how she does not know or understand nearly as much as she thinks she does.

Gee, seems weird... What was the purpose of this exercise? Hitting an innocent bystander who can't even fight back? And what's with the name - bataca???

Yeah, my hospital T (I.e. One I did not and would not choose for myself) tried the "lets pretend I'm the grandfather who abused you"- a CBT technique if he could be trusted- I flatly refused, he started anyway, I walked away and requested another T.

I am afraid if the woman asked me to hit her with a bat and I complied - I might not stop.
I can't really see her making such an offer.

I'm sorry, what you're describing isn't my idea of therapy. I wouldn't have hit my therapist either.

My therapist never suggested anything I thought was crazy.

I am in a mood with my T right now, so gimmie that bat!!

JK (ish!)

On a more serious note, she was trying to get my to express anger and wanted me to go to the bottom of her garden (which backs onto some train tracks) and scream as loud as I could.

I declined!

I would definitely have issues hitting someone, even with a foam-wrapped bat (unless we were playing around, like with the kids, and I knew I wasn;t going to hit very hard at all, but never to try to get anger out)... maybe the chair, but never a person.

I don't think my T's have ever asked me to do anything really off-the-wall. The worst thing I was ever asked to do was participate yet again in dbt despite knowing how it has always turned out negatively for me...

Nothing really crazy. I can't think of anything too weird.

I guess the craziest thing for me was when I was asked to cut off from my family... I found it quite ridiculous as there are many members who are the whole world for me and it's definitely worth to meet the whole family because of them... Till now, no other crazy requests from T

Write the word "hour" on my arm.

I was advised that it would create a rapprochement--which she said in her best French--if I would stay in a hotel, rather than home, the next time I visited my parents in another city. That didn't work, I mean, REALLY didn't work, and the-time-Missbella-stayed-in-a-hotel-when-she-visited was thrown in my face forever after. However, the therapist carried her lalaland delusion that she repaired my problems with parents.

She also sent me for a beauty makeover, a new look to go with my new psyche. I'm here to testify and that quiet, bookish woman transforming to a quiet, bookish woman with an different haircut and eye shadow color doesn't change a whole lot. I don't recall all the make-up, but turquoise might be been involved.

A crappy T I had when I was a teenager made me draw a 'happy face' on a paper plate and when I was feeling sad I was supposed to put this plate on my face and it was meant to make me feel happy again. It's laughable really....she treated me like I was 5 years old.

Intriguing. Why?

Initially I thought SHE was entirely kooky, does that count? She laughed when I told her that. I decided to be open minded about it all and it's worked out better than I could have imagined back then. Needless to say I haven't thought she was kooky for a long time now!

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Seriously? What the hec!?

I have been seeing my T for 4 years and, as I have told her on many occasions, she is bat s$!t crazy, and I wouldn't have it any other way

Heehee. Well I suppose mine is too and that's why we get along so well. As she is fond of saying "art, we are all crazy."

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Hahaha, yep, the reason I relate to my T so well is that we understand each other type of crazy!

I still think her asking me to teach her to hula hoop was really weird.

She's also given me strange homework.. I think one week was to look at Shamanism or something..!

To remind myself that all I have ever ever have to do is make it through the next hour.

It helps me with anxiety.

Trust her, sometimes blindly.

Nothing really crazy. However, she did once ask me to bring in my then-girlfriend for a session and, another time, my father. Both times I agreed. Both times it was a disaster! I learned my lesson: never bring in another person to my therapy sessions!!!

That is ridiculous! I would have been so annoyed

The craziest thing my T has asked? He once got me to choose a stone to represent my headache. And then he wanted me to have a conversation with it.

LOL! Really? Well don't make us wait in suspense! Did you teach her???

Are you a good hooper? Is she now a good hooper?