[MatBell]

I feel like mine berates my choice of education. I know she doesn’t mean to and it’s in my head mostly. May be just her choice of words that get to me. But of course it affects me. It’s a part of my identity I feel she berates. And years of going to school that she therefore sees as “nothing” (again, in my mind). So today’s session didn’t go well. It was hard for other reasons and then she drops that. I got annoyed with her, got quiet and didn’t say much. Just felt like going for the door actually.

It brings me down. Alot. All in all a rough day for me.

Have you experienced something similar? Where your t has inadvertently annoyed/insulted you?

[Rive1976]

My last one did. She yelled at me and said I didnt like my own sexuality and basically said I was fat. Which really pissed me off because we weren't talking about that and it has nothing to do with therapy.

[Anne2.0]

Bringing it up with my therapist directly when annoyed or irritated has been the only thing that has helped me. Learning to say something in the moment (which still doesn't happen most of the time) is most effective, as neither one of us have to rely on memory to discuss it.

[susannahsays]

The therapist I say doesn't really beat around the bush implying things. She does outright say things that I don't like quite frequently. I have often told her when she says something like this, but I don't really know that is was particularly helpful. She tends to stand her ground.