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Old Dec 27, 2017, 10:32 PM
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This is my list:
1. At first place, I'm jealous of T's family. They are (probably) the most important for her And they are bound foOh wow rever.
2. Then - close friends. They can spend time together, talk, laugh, party, and they know each other very well. I'll never know my T
3. Co-workers - when sometimes I hear they're laughing and talking together - I think I wish to be at their place. At least this.
4. Other clients are at the end of that list. Actually, I often see only one client - an older woman. And I'm not jealous of this one. But sometimes when I notice a younger woman who is leaving the building I'm a little bit jealous and I start thinking "Is she my T's client? Is she more interesting than me? Does T like to work with her more? Do they have a better connection?". Luckily it doesn't happen often...

Yes yes and yes!!! These are all things that bother me too
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Old Dec 27, 2017, 11:30 PM
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Sharing your experience is so helpful to me. I worry that I am not enough as well. I am the eldest child I know be always worked hard to be “good” without much in the way of results. I feel like it has made me boring and that others won’t be interested in knowing me.

When one of my sisters visited when I first moved here, we went to a concert and a total stranger ended up hanging out with us. I couldn’t help but get the vibe that he was interested in my sister and I as only tolerating my presence.
gc For what it's worth, I was / am considered the 'wild child' (by culture + crazy conservative family standards) and far from 'good' and yet, yeah, I also seem to be boring.

Did you want to hang out with the stranger? Like him? I've usually found that if I don't have chemistry of a certain sort with someone, it's also in large part because I don't really *want* to be around them (not the idea of them but them in particular)?
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Old Dec 28, 2017, 05:32 AM
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Just like others have already said, I can relate to this, and I’m sorry you had to hear your T being friendly with other clients. It makes it hard to remember that they still care about us, too. My T referred me to his co-worker in the same practice for EMDR, as T is not EMDR certified. I once had a session with the EMDR T while my T saw a client in the room next to us. I couldn’t hear what they were saying exactly, but I could hear them laughing and it made me feel awful to think of my T possibly liking this client more than me. And then I felt bad that it bothered me. I couldn’t focus at all that session. I never brought it up to my T, but it probably would have been good to. I hope you can talk to kashi about this and he is understanding of your feelings and helps you sort through them.
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Old Dec 28, 2017, 06:47 AM
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I can realate to what you've written.
With current T there isn't a lot of jealousy. But when I see her with another client (glad this doesn't happen a lot) I doubt our ''relationship''. Then it all just feels fake. Like she's like that with all her clients. I'm nothing special. I'm just one of many.

With PrevT (who I sometimes see for sessions) there's a lot of jealousy. A LOT. Especially about other clients. Other clients get to see her every week. I feel like...I don't know. There has happen some things. It made me doubt her, our ''relationship''. It was so good, but now I don't even trust her anymore. I HATE her other clients.
I don't want to be friends with her. I want to be her most important client. I've been with her for so many years, but still I'm just nothing. I know almost nothing about her, while I know so much about current T. I hate that her life is so good and amazing and my life still suck and will always sucks. And the last 2 years have been really hard on me and that has partly to do with her. She could have helped me if sshe would just have been honest.
Ugh. I hate therapists. I don't have good experiences with them. I should just quit therapy forever. It would be better.

Sorry for my rant here and that I can't be of any sort of help.
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Old Dec 28, 2017, 07:23 AM
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I have never seen other clients but I do know and tell myself often that I'm in no means special, because I think if I started thinking along those lines I could do myself more harm than good, but I know If I let myself think too much I would get jealous, I think it's just because of the fact that when I'm in the session she is amazingly nice and kind I wish I had more of that, her or at least someone like her in my life, so if I was to think of the fact that others do have someone like her in their life's it is a sense of jealousy I feel! I wish I was that lucky sometimes.
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