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Old May 17, 2007, 01:01 AM
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What is your T's room like?

What do you like about it?

What do you dislike about it?

Does it matter to you what the room is like?

Have you told your T what you think of the room?

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Old May 17, 2007, 03:49 AM
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the couches are ugly
i hate that she has all her text books in there
we are not there to admire furniture
T is for me about delving into my mind and heart
fixing me not the room in which i sit
as long as its not too busy and comfy
relaxed environment a place we can feel free to express ourselves is all that matters about the room...
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Old May 17, 2007, 05:00 AM
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My T's room is a small L-shaped room in an office building. From my sitting perspective:

One wall has well-stocked bookshelves on it, a decorative rug 2 the right. Above the bookshelves are some sort of paintings and to the left another decorative rug.
There is a pole lamp in front of the book shelf.

T sits in a chair in front of this; little side table to his left

THIS IS THE SPACE BETWEEN US/WHERE WE BULD THE BRIDGE>>>>COUCH ADJACENT

MY chair & little table w/tissues & clock facing T

To my left, in the L is his desk/phone etc. (his little work area) Over the desk is a big Budda wall hanging. You don't notice this hanging until you sit on the couch.

W I N D O W S behind me (that I wish I could see)

I love this room. It invites communication. I am very sensitive to my environment. My physical surroundings do matter to me and I think if it were messy or somethng I would not be able to relax in it. I have not told T that but I have told him I feel safe in the chair.

(Don't think my home is not messy with all those guys I live with, LOL).
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Old May 17, 2007, 08:06 AM
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Well I disliked it at first, because it wasn't known to me, now I know it and its safe and it's our room so I love it unconditionally now.
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Old May 17, 2007, 08:31 AM
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I love the room. It's at the end of a hall, long walk to his room. The room is large. He has his desk facing a window that looks to the woods. We've seen cuyotes out the window.

There is a love seat in the corner where I sit. He sits in a chair across from me. There is a side table to his left. There is a braided run in front of the love seat that I straighten when I go in. There is a table to the left of the love seat with a lamp on it and a clock that faces him.

He has pictures he has taken of Daytona Beach. He also has the Serenity Prayer framed on his wall. He has a tall bookshelf on one wall that I don't look directly at. He has another small bookshelf on a different wall that is empty. He has a lamp and coffee pot on top. He has a credenza on another wall with a large organizer on top. This is where he keeps his hand outs.

It is the best time of the week when I am sitting in that room. I feel so safe and comforted. I can be full of anxiety getting there and waiting, but as soon as I get to that room it all changes.

I've never had anyone comfort me like he can, without any touching. His voice is so soft and calm. Everything I say to him is ok. Never a look of shock or make me feel it's unusual. I'm so safe there. I feel safer there than I do at home.
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Old May 17, 2007, 09:00 AM
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Oh, when "we" moved to her building over near where she lived I trashed the building :-) It was in the state I was born in and looks very much like one of the apartment buildings in the complex we lived in then (for 8 months of my life; we'd already lived there nearly a year I think before I was born), back in 1950! I think I used "sordid" or some word like that and had to explain what it meant to my non-native Enlish speaker T.

I was disappointed in the first room there, thought it was my T's own office, because there wasn't any decorations at all or fancy chairs, etc. Nothing very telling about my T. We eventually moved into the head of the group's office (my T was a peer in status) and that was lovely furniture, art work, cabinets and ambiance :-) I guess I liked that room a lot.
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Old May 17, 2007, 09:06 AM
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What is your T's room like?

Well, he doesn't have a room. It's a 4-story building in downtown Philly... and the therapists move back and forth between rooms. All the rooms are basically set up the same. Ugly paintings on the wall (I pointed out to my T that a couple of them came from IKEA), each room has the dreaded couch on one wall, two chairs opposite each other, one chair on the side of those two, a little table for a clock and tissues.

What do you like about it?

The window. In each room, the window is behind me. When I don't feel like looking at T, I will turn around and look out the window at the city.

What do you dislike about it?

I dislike the paintings. I feel like some of them are anxiety provoking. We talk about that... I interpret what's in them.

What I really dislike, though, is that when I used to go on Tuesdays, we did always use a particular room. My T told me that I didn't have to wait for him in the waiting room. That I can just come upstairs at 5:00. I liked that. Now that I have switched to Friday, I can't do that anymore because he isn't always in the same room on Fridays. So I have to wait in the waiting room for him to come down.

Does it matter to you what the room is like?

No-- if it did I'd be in trouble because because we aren't always in the same one. I have my likes and dislikes, but ultimately I could have therapy with him in a cave and I'd just be happy to be with him.

Have you told your T what you think of the room?

One time I said, "That painting is from IKEA." And he said, "I don't decorate in here!"

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