Annoying T phrases

That's hardly empathic listening on your T's part. I would feel shut down.

Neat! That looks right.

At my last session with my first T, he says that he's really learned a lot working with me. All I could think was, "How about you give me all that money back for being your guinea pig?"

Oh, God, I hate that "I learned a lot from you" unless it's a student.

This has probably been mentioned in the thread, but I hate:

Therapist: Where did you go just then?/What happened then?
Me (thinking): I went to Zimbabwe!

"How worried are you about that?"

I don't like when she asks me to rate things on a scale of 1 to 10. Like rating my level of anxiety or something. I understand that it's a way to communicate about it, but I just don't like having to choose a number.

Ending the session with "We have to stop now."

Same here.

when they say "you will find someone who'll love you again, you will have so many people, you will make it out of home again in a few months, you're smart and will find tons of jobs, tons of boyfriends, tons of.."
I find it nice of t but it seems
more like I'm talking to my mother or a friend and sometimes I really wonder what her background
may be to find things so easy. It feels like she doesn't really get the sense of despair. What should she say though.. On the other hand it has occurred she talked about situations in her past that were extremely similar to mine and that's finally extremely helpful and doesn't make me feel like I'm from another planet.

"So, when do you want to come back?" at the end of every single meeting...
Always sooner than I would ever say, even though I dont think I have ever actually answered this question.

"I bet."

"Thoughts are just thoughts"

"What do you think triggered that?"

Hello!!! That's why I'm here!!! I don't know!!!!!

"you ARE making progress"
especially when I feel as bad as ever!

The other day she asked "What brings you here today?" I don't recall her asking me that before, at least not since the very beginning. I don't know why I found it so annoying.

Where do you feel that in your body? -It seems a lot of therapists say this! The first time a T asked me this it was during an EMDR session and totally caught me off guard. Like idk...my big toe? My ear?

Anything "cliche" that sounds like a quote they pulled off of Pinterest...barf

Oh god. That would annoy the crap out of me. "I've been in therapy with you for 3 years. I'll give you three chances to guess why I am here"

Right? I wanted to ask "have you not been paying attention for four years?"

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Right? My ex-T was constantly telling me she learned more from doing therapy with me than from anything else. Uhh... Thanks? It was quite disconcerting.

That was my ex-T. She was not the brightest.

Ex-T used to ask me a series of questions that I know she knew the answer to:
"How does that make you feel?"
bad
"Do you like feeling bad?"
no
"How old are you feeling right now?"
like a little girl

This line of questions was not helpful in the slightest. I answered her every time but I wanted to scream. In hindsight, I probably should have...