[LonesomeTonight]

Have you ever just randomly blurted out something potentially embarrassing in therapy? I don't mean like some deep, dark secret--that's different. I mean, like, "Whoops, not sure where that came from, kind of overshared there..."

In therapy today, I was talking about a fight I'd had with H. T asked if H and I had talked about things since fight, and I said yeah, that things seemed OK in morning, though I guess we didn’t really talk about it. He said something about coming back together, and I was like, “Yeah, I guess we did sort of come together after. I mean, with talking, I’m not one of those ‘have sex after a fight people.’”

Then I realized what I'd just said and was like, "Uh...yeah, not sure why I just shared that." T just looked amused and didn't comment further.

[ElectricManatee]

Oh my gosh, so many times! I'm not even sure a slightly awkward sex revelation like that would qualify for me, since yours was relevant to the topic at hand.

Most of the things I have blurted out have involved my intense feelings toward her, so actually I guess that's relevant to therapy, but geez, embarrassing. Yesterday she was vague about the backstory of how she got her cat, and I inexplicably filled in the details (which she had apparently forgotten she told me). Really not necessary that she knew that I remember basically everything she has ever said...

[CharlieStarDust]

I’m pretty calculated in what and how I say things. But she tries to track my mood and we were talking one day and she awkwardly danced around something. Finally, she leaned in closer and asked (super awkwardly to me): are you menstruating. I had an embarrassed giggle.

[stopdog]

I have not done this. I am fairly cautious and deliberate before speaking at appointments.

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by ElectricManatee

...Yesterday she was vague about the backstory of how she got her cat, and I inexplicably filled in the details (which she had apparently forgotten she told me). Really not necessary that she knew that I remember basically everything she has ever said...

That just happened to me today! I mentioned i got jimmyjohns over the break, then he said how he was related to jimmyjohns, and then i was like, well apparently you forgot we have a mutual friend involved with jimmyjohns, which i didnt say because that would have been rude, but yes i remember everything he ever said. What IS that?! Did Freud ever notice that?

[LonesomeTonight]

Originally Posted by unaluna

That just happened to me today! I mentioned i got jimmyjohns over the break, then he said how he was related to jimmyjohns, and then i was like, well apparently you forgot we have a mutual friend involved with jimmyjohns, which i didnt say because that would have been rude, but yes i remember everything he ever said. What IS that?! Did Freud ever notice that?

T has said I have a ridiculously good memory. Like, he seems almost unsettled by it (maybe he fears I'll use it against him at one point? Actually, I guess I sort of did with the whole e-mail charge thing a few months ago, but he trusted my memory of things--which I guess cost him $45!)

[healed84]

Nothing too embarrassing to myself. My notoriously busy, overbooked and always late T started teaching a class at the local college last year I think. When he told me about it.. I just blurted out, wow! You have time for that!? He looked at me stunned for a minute and chuckled and said yeah.. that is what everybody else said too.

[fille_folle]

Yes, I sometimes have diarrhea of the mouth. However, my utterances are much more shocking (and disgusting) than what you said. They involve details of sex acts. It's just so hard to talk about any of it in the first place that when I do, it sometimes just comes spilling out.

Actually, I guess that's not what you're talking about, since, though inappropriate, my utterances aren't random.

[SummerTime12]

Yep. We were talking about something related to pregnancy and I blurted “I should have been pregnant so many times in high school” without realizing what I’d essentially just disclosed.

[DP_2017]

I've blurted out a lot of random stuff but nothing I was embarrassed about, we just both laugh at it anyway

[nottrustin]

One day we were discussing my husband's drinking habits. For some reason she asked me if he had to drink alcohol before having sex. I blurted out no I am the one who needs to have a few drinks in order to have sex. I was mortified and said, I cant believe that just came out of mouth. Sex is a very diffult subject for me. She kind of looked surprised and we discussed it very briefly and I changes the subject

I really am not embarrassed to tell him about things. I did catch him raising his eyebrows though when I told him of the extent to which I had been sexually promiscuous.

[annielovesbacon]

Like stopdog I am also very careful with what I say in therapy... there is more left unsaid rather than things I say accidentally. I don't think this counts as blurting out but once I mentioned being gay, just in passing... T paused and said "wait, have you told me that before?" it turns out I hadn't but I didn't know that. It wasn't a big deal to me but for some reason it was to her. I guess she thought maybe I would have some sort of underlying gay trauma... I don't. (I'm lucky to be able to say that)