[lauren_helene]

It's Thursday, let's laugh. Here are some silly moments I have had at T's office.

In the waiting room at my T's office, I can sometimes here laughter in the room between he and another client before I go in. I sit there and think "stop it!" We aren't always laughing because of the work we are doing. But he's not supposed to laugh with anyone else...

Another time, someone had written a phrase on his whiteboard about creating drama. I asked what the comment was about and he started laughing about this funny female client....I was actually mad. How silly is that!

Okay who is next?

[Perna]

I was lucky, there was rarely anyone waiting to see my T or having seen her right before.

My favorite though was when she went away for 6 weeks the first time, to another country, and I had a really really hard time with it and actually forgot when/what time of day, our sessions were! I knew the day she was coming back (we always had a set day/time for our sessions and rarely changed that) but couldn't remember the time. So, I took the whole day off work and went "early" and just "sat" outside the door for a couple hours. This was in an apartment complex which had the clinic and some of the apartments were also clinic "offices" on different floors, etc. but most of the apartments were also regular apartments! So I'm sitting in an apartment hallway all day, outside her particular clinic "office"! :-) She came "early" (she said, an hour before our session) and was slightly astonished to see me and I explained I'd forgotten the time and that's I'd been there a couple hours (never in my wildest dreams occurred to me to call and ask what time?) and she could tell I was "desperate" and fortunately said we could start then. Of course, that was back in the day when I didn't talk so we got in the session and. . . :-)

Once she compared me to her 2-3 year old granddaughter and that made me a bit jealous :-)

Those are both good, LOL. I see my T at a consultation center in which there are many therapists and a couple pdocs, so the people in the waiting room are there to see various people. I don't think my T has anyone right before me because he has told me that I don't have to wait in the waiting room and I can just come upstairs to the room. So I have never, ever seen another client that I know is there to see my T. Or if I did, I wouldn't know it. Of course I have managed to build it up in my head that he has no other clients and he just shows up there for me, hahahaha. Sometimes I get jealous if I focus on his wedding ring during the session. Pathetic, I know. I think about how he has a wife and she gets to spend tons of time with him, not just one hour per week. OK, this is embarrassing as hell, but sometimes I pretend that his wife is this horrible, ogre-like monster that is terribly mean and he is most likely in the process of trying to escape from her. See, my T never self-discloses so all the jealousy I feel is the kind that I make up in my head. But don't worry-- I do a good job of it, lol.

[WinterRose]

I recently got jealous when my pdoc mentioned having a discussion with a friend about an idea that he's discussed with me. I thought, hey - I'm the only one he's supposed to be having discussions with - and this was a friend of his and not even another client. I, of course, am his favorite client and one day he'll invite me to be a part of the new wonderful clinic he's dreaming up. And of course, he only asks me for my opinion and none of his other patients, right?
lol (so embarrasing )