"Negative" as a Positive....Stress in Therapy...

Thanks everybody...

Today is a better day...

SecretGarden, the bad thing though, is that you are left "guessing" as to why he is confronting you. You think you have triggered something in him to make him take this tack, but you don't know. To me, it seems fair game to be able to ask him about this new strategy he is taking in therapy. I think it is the client's right to be able to ask questions about our therapy. I guess it is the T's right to say "you don't need to know," but would he really say that? Just musing..... May not fit your situation at all--maybe it is not that critical to know why the confrontational strategy.

I didn't understand your "assumption" comment. You were assuming something about me?

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SecretGarden, the bad thing though, is that you are left "guessing" as to why he is confronting you. You think you have triggered something in him to make him take this tack, but you don't know. To me, it seems fair game to be able to ask him about this new strategy he is taking in therapy. I think it is the client's right to be able to ask questions about our therapy. I guess it is the T's right to say "you don't need to know," but would he really say that? Just musing..... May not fit your situation at all--maybe it is not that critical to know why the confrontational strategy.

I didn't understand your "assumption" comment. You were assuming something about me?

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Oh no... not you. I assume that he does not like me to confront him. I assume that sets him off. I assume that he is angry....but he is trying to move me forward.

Yes it is my right and I will see where Wednesday takes me... I do think that I have been off meds for a couple of months and have started a new one... day 11 or so here. I think that he wishes to strike while my defenses are down. A bit cruel but it does zing a gal at the heart. Of course that is an assumption too. But it seems valid at this timing. There is a particular situation that he has chosen to focus on most and it presented him the opportunity to zing me about a month or so ago.

I suppose I ask him if he likes me...lol.. and if he would abandon me but he does not answer these questions. He is smooth at changing the topic. I presume this is because I need to be confident iin myself and that I might get motivated to change so that I would not lose him.. See I can work all kind of things through in my own mind. Who knows though.....

SecretGarden, I have a hard time keeping everyone's T's straight. Do you have a therapist and a pdoc? Do you receive psychotherapy services from each of them? It sounds like in this thread you are talking about psychotherapy with your pdoc? Do you have a T also? So confusing!

P.S. thanks for explaining about the assumption thing.

My therapist/medicine man is a psychiatrist.