Dear Client

Dear Brazen,

I'm glad you are finally seeing through your negative transference and seeing how kind and caring I really am. I want to help you and I am trying really hard to understand. Please don't scare me again, ok?

T.

I really don't know what to do - I just make **** up and hope. Or I just stop listening altogether. You were right.

Dear ATAT,

You showed too much evidence of independent thought and a lack of sycophantism. I had to set it up so either you fell or you were pushed.

Smaug

I like this idea, please no judging my T and I have a very unique relationship.

Dear EM,

I wish I could tell you how much I do love you. I would love to have you over for family affairs and to go shopping with you, buying shoes and purses. Laughing and eating too many cookies and drinking too many Diet Cokes. I wish I could tell you that my husband thinks you're a wonderful person as well. There are so many things I wish I could say and/or do but I need to keep my professional mode on right now, because I love you and I want you to be healthy. I'm sad for the day that will eventually come when we are no longer therapist/client, it won't be as close or the same. It will be different but I promise we'll always be in each others lives from here forward. Especially since we sit in the same row at the ball games.

I love you, EM. Please don't ever doubt that. I'll always be here for you, but right now I have to stay strong and firm, for you. I only do this because I care deeply and am emotionally invested in you. I don't look forward to your sessions because you are a paycheck - I look forward to them because it's you. I have gotten to know you and I wish all those people that ruined your outlook on yourself would burn in hell, and that time will come so right now my job is to get your better so you can smile and laugh more and enjoy life the way it's meant to be.

Love,

T

The dbt stuff was freakin hilarious! He kinda sounded like my t. Maybe they channel the sock monkey!

I'm pretty squishy liberal and all, but the essential oils, Tibetan singing bowls and mindfulness love even make me roll my eyes sometimes!!!

"I suppose basking sharks probably are pretty big, Argo. How big? I don't know. Maybe ten meters. A meter is about 3 and a half feet. Uh-huh. No problem. Okay. We'll see you on the seventh."

Dear ATAT,

Please stop comparing your emotional landscape to World War I battles I know nothing about.

And I realize I don't know "Hamlet" or Greek mythology as well as you do, but you don't really need to correct my every mistake, do you? Pedant.

No. 3

Dear Mona,
Why do you punish me and frustrate me? I hate it when you ignore me and shut me out. It feels cruel. You haven't done that in a while and last session I am so sorry I couldn't stop laughing. It wasn't at you but it was just what you were saying and the way you were describing your mother was like Mrs Brown.

for those who don't know who Mrs brown is.

Dear brillskep,

Please stop asking me to take responsibility for stuff I did months or years ago. This therapy is all about you, not me. We are here to discuss your reactions, not what you think are my mistakes.

Sincerely,
your therapist

Dear Crispy,I wish you would come back and face this,it has been almost a year and 1/2 since you ran out.

"Yo Bos, good to see you, working with you is like money for ol rope. I mean maybe I am getting desensitised in my old age but you just make so much ****in sense... So what's up."

A direct quote from my psychiatrist

Annie,
I really wish you would get a reality check. You're not stupid or lazy, you're doing fine. It's not your fault you have bipolar disorder and I wish you would stop blaming yourself. You're stubborn as an *** and difficult to work with, but I have hope that you can get better.
--T2

Annie,
I haven't seen you since last semester when I moved, but I hope you are doing well. Don't forget the grounding techniques I taught you for when you dissociate. You are going to be okay.
--T1

(This was a really good exercise for me -- good thread idea! -- ALB)

Dear ATAT,

Shut up about my mistakes, already.

No. 3

My T has written me a few times, just short little notes. Often they are words of encouragement from something in that session. Thanking me for sharing and being open, and having courage. And about her being honored to be on this journey with me.

It is odd because sometimes I don't want the message (mostly when I am down on myself) and other times I am disappointed when there isn't one.

Dear ATAT,

Yes, that's right, I know nothing about Hamlet. Wipe the shock off your face and deal, mmm-kay?

DBC

She hasnt even seen the David Tennant one? Off with her head!!

Im imperviously imperious lately.

( You wander about all over the place )

( You are complex and you never mentioned that ? )

( You just started looking at a favourite philosopher of mine )

Dear Mona, I am nervous about seeing you tomorrow. Your moods have. Even all over the place and I never know what to expect or which Mona to expect.

I love you too and I'll always be there for you.
(Dreamland version - I would actually run a mile if he said this)

I am just messing with you - I am not as illiterate as I pretend to be.

I am human.
I have emotions.
I cry.
I yell.
My kids piss me off.
My kids hurt my feelings.
I am human.
If I could be a perfect human for you all the time,
I would be.
I can't.
I'm a human who deeply cares.
Just remember I still have my **** to deal with every now and then.

junkDNA,

take ur meds and go to bed.

T

Dear Mona, you remind me so much of myself that it scares me! I am sorry for having to really challenge you again but our session was going nowhere!