[awkwardlyyours]

Do you ever get bored in session?

Or, try to somehow prevent the onset of boredom?

And / or, talk about it when it happens?

Basically, do you experience boredom? And if yes, how do you deal with it?

Me -- I sometimes have a gnawing, terrible sense of boredom suddenly creep up on me (I know, resistance etc but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar). In the past, I've talked my way through it while feeling like my mind is oozing plastic or something. But, these days, I just fall silent (current T oftentimes jumps in with a question or insight and then I try to play along). In turn though, I want to quote Wendy Cope's Being Boring to her.

[ruh roh]

I have sometimes felt a kind of lull more than boredom. And then I think, Wow, I'm all better! And then something happens and I get reminded why I'm there.

last week! well not boredom exactly, but more like 30 minutes in I realized I had nothing to talk about and i was ready to call it a day. but i got up and played in the sand instead.

[atisketatasket]

I get bored during regular conversations, so 50 minutes of therapy...yup.

Exceptions are when there's tension - fun tension with 1, much less fun with DBC.

[Argonautomobile]

I bore myself frequently. I usually leave.

[atisketatasket]

Originally Posted by Argonautomobile

I bore myself frequently. I usually leave.

Yeah, this too. I spend so much time with myself I don't find myself very interesting.

[retro_chic]

I sometimes start find the conversation tedious and will start getting a bit irritated. T usually notices and will ask me what's happening for me and if I want to change the subject. For me this irritation/boredom is either related to resistance or feeling disappointed with how the session is going. Sometimes I expect a session to be particularly insightful but it falls flat which makes me annoyed because I think I'm wasting time.

[Paperless]

Sometimes boredom can come when one feels fed up with, or bored with the therapist.

Counselling in itself can become boring when you cannot engage with the therapist on a mutual level well, so it's important to seek a therapist whom you get along with well.