[RedSun]

My t asked me a question today...my answer was a vehement 'no!', but as she talked I had to put my hands over my ears til she stopped. feel bit silly now.

Someone tell me something weird that you've done so I don't feel quite such a loon.

[Leah123]

I've hung right up on mine when she said something disturbing.

[HealingTimes]

I have done the same as you red, apart from I also said "La La La, I cant hear you" when my hands were over my ears.

I have also stormed out of her room after 10 mins and almost knocked the door off the hinges, drawn her a very childish picture which had words about how much I hated her etc.

[RedSun]

Originally Posted by HealingTimes

I have done the same as you red, apart from I also said "La La La, I cant hear you" when my hands were over my ears.

I have also stormed out of her room after 10 mins and almost knocked the door off the hinges, drawn her a very childish picture which had words about how much I hated her etc.

Okay, I'm feeling a bit better now!
Though tempted to do the lalala bit next time...

[HealingTimes]

Originally Posted by Red75

Okay, I'm feeling a bit better now!
Though tempted to do the lalala bit next time...

I am so embarrassed now, looking back on it! We were exploring my teenage years and for a while my behaviour slipped back there and this was the result. Many embarrassing things happened during that stage of therapy!

My T was very understanding throughout it all though, I often wonder if ANYTHING phases her!

I am sure your T will understand too

I have told him emphatically to SHUT UP (something I never say). I have bolted from his office to go throw up. I have curled into a tiny ball in the corner of the couch, clutching the couch pillow to my chest. I am sure there are other things, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

[ThisWayOut]

I've curled up completely behind the large pillow... once I walked out and hid in the corner of an adjacent room when T stepped out for a minute...

I broke my hand. But only once. So I suppose its not a thing that happens so much as one thing that happened. I also sometimes can't remain sitting if it's a vinyl or leather chair because I slide down and right out to the edge of the seat and end up with a sore neck. The pdoc I see has one of those chairs. With the last therapist I saw, we often stood or walked, which made it easier.

Not to hijack, but how do you break your hand in therapy??

[RedSun]

Yeah, how do you? What did your t do?
Feeling much better now, thanks everyone. I didn't dare look at her face after....hope she was okay with it...

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by Red75

Okay, I'm feeling a bit better now!
Though tempted to do the lalala bit next time...

Who hasnt done the lalala bit?! Weve both thrown our dolls at each other, kicked each others feet off the ottomen(?), and once i laughed so hard i rolled over backward in the chair, altho that was different, but it did freak him out.

[Hanban757]

I have done a lot of embarrassing things with my T. I have ignored her, told her to shut up and walked out of the room. After I did something like that I was always embarrassed to go see her again, but I would force myself to. She never made a big deal out of it!

[stopdog]

Originally Posted by My kids are cool

Not to hijack, but how do you break your hand in therapy??

I have broken my hand on the way out of the therapist's office. So I can see how it could happen. I did not find it weird though.

I think the only thing that I did on my own that was weird with a therapist was I did one time call up and make a second appointment with the woman in the same week.
The thing I have done that I think the therapist found weird was make a powerpoint because I was desperately trying to communicate something to her and she would not pay attention to the part that concerned me. She did make fun of me for making the powerpoint so it was not a completely successful experiment.

[HazelGirl]

I have been tempted to do embarrassing things. The worst I have come to actually doing any of them was hiding behind a pillow, and that was just a few appointments ago. I wasn't even paying attention, but as the conversation went on, the pillow went from behind me to right in front of me and me hiding behind it and hugging it tightly.

I've wanted to hide in a corner with her blanket over me, run from the room, told her to stop talking, and yell at her. I haven't actually done any of those, though.

when I still saw her in person: I stomped my feet and scowled at her and refused to speak more than once when I was responding from the inner bratty teenager. That was always lovely. One time I was enjoying doing a sand tray so much that I was literally skipping between the shelves of miniatures and the sand tray - I felt like a carefree little girl - when I thought about it later that day I felt so embarrassed!!! I got really frustrated one time at something and threw my pen across the room, narrowly missing her head. And we won't even go into details because I still feel guilty about it, but I hung up on her once after we started doing phone sessions. That was not good.

MKAC: She had been pushing me for weeks to get in touch with my anger, which I resisted, so there was a slow burn and build up over those weeks and then she one day decided to switch to self-acceptance and was pressuring me to repeat positive affirmations. I snapped. Before I knew it, I pounded my fist into floor (which turned out to have concrete under the thin carpeting) and broke it. She said I should have asked for a pillow. But honestly, it caught me as much by surprise as it did her. I will never let myself be pressured into any emotion again.

[tealBumblebee]

It's been great reading these.

One time I was accidentally triggered; went into instant hand over hears, eyes closed, shaking my head left to right, rocking back ad forth/can't sit still mode. I did walk away feeling a bit dramatic and she was very obviously shocked (i'm pretty unemotional) and I could tell she didn't really know what to do.

I like to flick my hair bands on my wrist and once I accidently flung one across the room to her side haha. She laughed though and kindly picked it up and returned it. Then it later flicked again, she didn't notice, and I pulled the exorcist and leaned as far over as I could to grab it without getting off of the couch. Again, she thought it was funny.

And then of course, I do the whole hiding behind the pillow thing. It's crazy because she's point out that I do it, I know I do it and try not to but as soon as something where I need a boundary comes up - so does the pillow wall. It's uncontrollable!

[RedSun]

Wow thanks everyone. Teal, you're right about the uncontrollable reaction...it was all I could do to stay in my seat and not walk out, but there was no way by hands were coming off my ears

I haven't thrown anything, but when I saw my old t I slammed the door, and said 'what the ****?' when I went to leave and the room door was locked! And he was a cbt t so not used to such outbursts

[stopdog]

I hate to imagine the panic I would feel if the woman tried locking me inside the room with her.

Originally Posted by stopdog

I hate to imagine the panic I would feel if the woman tried locking me inside the room with her.

EXACTLY. Just the thought of it makes me angry and shaky and I really like my T.

[Sabra]

Originally Posted by My kids are cool

Not to hijack, but how do you break your hand in therapy??

I broke my hand in therapy by hitting the thick plastic sheet used under a rolling desk chair. My best friend had just committed suicide and I was soooooo angry. It is called a boxer's break. My little finger was perpendicular to my hand and I had to have surgery. I lied to everyone about the manner in which it happened.

Sabra

[wotchermuggle]

Tweet tweet tweet.

Originally Posted by Red75

Wow thanks everyone. Teal, you're right about the uncontrollable reaction...it was all I could do to stay in my seat and not walk out, but there was no way by hands were coming off my ears

I haven't thrown anything, but when I saw my old t I slammed the door, and said 'what the ****?' when I went to leave and the room door was locked! And he was a cbt t so not used to such outbursts

My t always locked the door behind us after we got into her office. It never bothered me, it actually made me feel secure in talking cuz I knew no one could barge in, there was no receptionist or anything to stop anyone from doing that. One time someone did try to open the door and she was not happy about it.

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[StressedMess]

I turn beet red from the chest up to the scalp, sometimes heat radiates off my skin. When I get embarrassed I babble, talk extremely fast, and the pitch goes up the longer I go on.

T must think I'm screeching at her like a harpy, and the redness doesn't fade for hours after I go home. So the shame sort of sticks with me.

And that one time I sat so far down to the edge of the chair during guided imagery, I almost fell off on my rump!! Darn slippery upholstery!

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[nottrustin]

Hubby has been to couple of appointments with me earlier on. For one of the appointments I knew ahead of time that she needed to speak to hubby and for me to sit quietly and not answer for him (she feels we are overfly protective of each other). She asked me if I wanted to sit in the hall for a few minutes at the beginning of the session while she talked to him or if I wanted to sit in the office and be quiet... I promised is would be quiet...it was SO figgin hard. I sat through that time humming and biting my tongue... they thought it was hilarious.