[MissCharlotte]

hahahahahaha

I just remembered something that makes me laugh. The last session before T went on vacation I was absolutely furious with him when I left. I went to my car and got in and began to back out of the spot and when I turned my head there was T, walking to his car two spaces away from mine. So, I tooted the horn and waved. I can't believe I did that. I beeped at T! He sort of smiled and nodded and I pulled away and drove off.

About ten minutes later, stuck in traffic I was sobbing and calling him to leave a message. Gee talk about conflicting emotions. I should have run him over instead. LOL JK

1 week 2 days till my next appointment
5 days till I can call T

Yazaa............. that brings back memories....

years and years ago... my then T and I lived on the same side of town.. actually within a few miles of each other..

And somehow.. as fates would have it.. we seemed to end up at the grocery store at the same time..

Always was like.... and he eats??? lol....

[Lemon]

My husband used to see his pdoc in our neighborhood at the Starbucks. He didn't like this pdoc at all, but when my husband saw the pdoc he would kind of joke around and say "hey, I must be stalking you". His pdoc didn't look like he liked the joke! He looked like he thought it might be true.

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And somehow.. as fates would have it.. we seemed to end up at the grocery store at the same time..

Always was like.... and he eats??? lol....

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Shocking isn't it? Apparently Ts are like real people that need air and nutrition to survive. I told my T that I thought he materialized somewhere in the walls and only came out for our sessions. lol

I should mentioned that my fantasy of T materializing in the walls has been shattered by the fact that I am his last patient on Fridays and if I drive to therapy I often see him walking to the parking garage as I'm driving back up the street from where I was parked. He leaves? He knows how to walk? He drives? Hahaha. I pretend not to see him. I have never acknowledged it. Chances are he has noticed me driving by because I am a music blaster/all windows open driver and when it's not too hot for open windows, I usually have them all down with the music turned up. Plus he knows I love Bob Dylan and how may people drive around blasting Bob Dylan from their car? lol

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hahahahahaha

I just remembered something that makes me laugh. The last session before T went on vacation I was absolutely furious with him when I left. I went to my car and got in and began to back out of the spot and when I turned my head there was T, walking to his car two spaces away from mine. So, I tooted the horn and waved. I can't believe I did that. I beeped at T! He sort of smiled and nodded and I pulled away and drove off.

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Hahahahaha

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About ten minutes later, stuck in traffic I was sobbing and calling him to leave a message. Gee talk about conflicting emotions. I should have run him over instead. LOL JK

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Ah sounds so familiar.... One minute smiling, the next minute wanting to beat the crap out of him, the next minute crying and needing him.

Should I watch out for you when I'm on the road? LOL

[sunrise]

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So, I tooted the horn and waved. I can't believe I did that. I beeped at T! He sort of smiled and nodded and I pulled away and drove off.

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Hey, this actually sounds like very normal behavior. Like he was a friend or co-worker or something. You treated your T like an everyday normal person!

I am coming up on a time when my T will be serving a professional, dual role for me and I will see him outside of our office. It is a little freaky to contemplate it. I wonder if I will interact with him the same way outside of his therapy office that I do inside? Maybe I will be a different person. Maybe I will be all stammery. It's going to be weird, but is not a negative for me, or else I wouldn't be doing it. I have so much else on my plate, I can't let this bother me.

I went to church today for the first time ever. My T goes to the same church. I saw her and her husband. My little alters had to fight all temptation of screaming out "HI (insert name here)!!!"

We also heard something very funny this week where the little ones wanted to yell out "I hope you don't take this as sexual harassment but I love you!!"

Oi

[WinterRose]

I ran into my T twice early in therapy. Once at a wedding reception and another time at a gym we both went to (and I was with my mom at the time - even more awkward). Those first times were really weird. I ignored her at the wedding and didn't know what to do after greeting her at the gym. More recently, I saw her at the library and I actually approached her and started a normal conversation. Interesting how things change.

Recently, she had eye surgery and now doesn't wear glasses anymore. I'm still trying to get used to it. She doesn't look like my T so much anymore. That is really weird.

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I am coming up on a time when my T will be serving a professional, dual role for me and I will see him outside of our office. It is a little freaky to contemplate it. I wonder if I will interact with him the same way outside of his therapy office that I do inside? Maybe I will be a different person. Maybe I will be all stammery. It's going to be weird, but is not a negative for me, or else I wouldn't be doing it.

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Sunrise - I'll be curious to know how that goes. I wonder how I would handle it if I ended up working with my T or pdoc in a professional relationship. It could happen. Sometimes I think it would be great. Other times I wonder just what that would be like since they've seen me at my worst.

[lauren_helene]

I've never run into mine and right now I'm at Border's downtown and I guess he could walk in...changes are my friend will get here before he does!

I did see him leave his office once in a mercedes...I was like alright he has my taste! I don't have his money though.

[beautifulconfusion]

Hehehe

I must admit, it always shocks me a little when I run into my T in the restroom in her building before a session... Funny to think about them as real human beings with biological needs n such!

They go to the bathroom, too?

I'm learning so much today. T will be so proud of me when he comes back.

[MissCharlotte]

Hi beautiful welcome to PC

If I run into T in the restroom it means either he's in the ladies room or I am in the men's room.

Would I stoop that low to run into him? Nahhhh, I think not, but you never know.

1 week 2 days til my next appointment
5 days till I can call T

ohhhhhhhh geezz lemon... so so funny.. stalking at Starbucks.. hehehehe

Hmm. With all my past therapists I guess I just kinda thought of them as living in their offices. I mean, I knew they didn't, but I didn't much like to think of them doing other things. My current therapist.. Well.. His office seems transitory somehow. Probably because I get the impression that he doesn't spend all that much time there really. Only a couple days a week. He spends a day in a clinic somewhere else and a day or two somewhere else - hospital maybe. The office feels really transitory too because there aren't any personal items at all (aside from his laptop).

Sometimes I arrive before he does in the morning and I try not to watch him driving up...

I just... Don't like the thought of encountering him in a different setting. Feel like therapy is sacred somehow. Maybe it will change over time but at the moment... I dunno... Just want him to live in his room.

:-(

[pachyderm]

I saw my T in the Trader Joe's last Wednesday.

It was alright.

[Lemon]

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If I run into T in the restroom it means either he's in the ladies room or I am in the men's room.

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LOL...Well it would be funny to see what T would say about seeing you in the men's room.

Actually, one of my fears has been running into T in the bathroom before my session. I always stop there before and sometimes she goes to the restroom before calling me into her office (I know because she has to walk by the waiting area to get to the bathroom). I need the time before the session to collect my thoughts and seeing T then would sort-of throw it all off.

[Lemon]

Ok, that reminded me of another thing that I find awkward. My T's office is in an office building with many other types of offices, but on the floor that she is on there are a couple other mental health offices. Sometimes when I get on the elevator somebody else is going to the same floor and it feels kind of weird. They're unlikely to go in her door with me because it's a small place, just her and one other T (no receptionist or anything). But it still feels kind of weird to ride all the way up in the elevator and walk down the hall with someone and both go into doors to talk to Ts or pdocs.

[WinterRose]

Lemon - You reminded me. At my last appointment, T was in the parking lot talking to someone else. Then that person came up the stairs with me and sat in the waiting room. I was worried that she was seeing my T and that T had forgotten our appointment. Turned out she was seeing the other T in the office, but it is weird waiting in the room before hand with someone else.

[sidony]

Interesting thread! I have never seen my T out of context. I've seen him come into the office building in the morning (often I get there before he does), but I was already in the waiting room and only saw him as he entered (never as he was walking up). I've never once seen him leave. Even when walking away from the building (and being slow) after group or something -- sometimes I've walked slow and looked back (I walk all the way down the block to catch a bus). I've never seen him leave. Maybe he has a secret tunnel.

Sidony

hehehehehe secret tunnel...

[MissCharlotte]

Oh yeah. I think the "Secret T Tunnel" is under the T chair.

[smiley1984]

Someone once told me; just remember, they poo and fart just like everyone else.

I'm doing my psychiatry rotation at college atm, and guess which supervisor I have been assigned to? yep, it's the psychiatrist I see.
It would be hard to swap and we discussed it but he is so professional it is fine. He has a definite supervisor/teacher persona and takes on his therapist persona when I'm the patient. Even better he has given me a good report for college.

I think it is worse when I have to see doctors whom I have had for classes/supervisions - especially when they need to examine you! but it is good, you do get special treatment as a patient and they charge you at reduced rates.