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You are brave/strong | 37 | 56.92% | ||||
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It is an honor/pleasure to work with you | 37 | 56.92% | ||||
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You bring your best/true/authentic self to therapy | 9 | 13.85% | ||||
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you work really hard | 37 | 56.92% | ||||
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you are insightful | 33 | 50.77% | ||||
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you are psychologically minded | 9 | 13.85% | ||||
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"we" (meaning therapist and client) get along well | 20 | 30.77% | ||||
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how sensitive and caring you are | 25 | 38.46% | ||||
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you are very smart/bright/intelligent | 50 | 76.92% | ||||
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I care about/like you | 45 | 69.23% | ||||
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I am not impervious to clients (or words to that meaning) | 15 | 23.08% | ||||
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Has the therapist ever said these things to you? multiple responses are allowed on the poll
Do you think it was sincere or just what they say to clients? __________________ Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. |
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I don't see a poll.
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Yes to all, except my english isnt good enough to understand what the last one means.
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Geez, none of them ever said we got along really well. I can’t imagine why.
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The crazy part is - the two I just finished seeing both said all of these things to me. The get along well was put a bit differently but basically they said it. ("our relationship was really solid" is what the first one said)
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#7
Sort of? For a couple of these things. My T will say things like "I wouldn't work with someone I didn't like," so logically that means he likes me, but he never says "I like you" or anything like that in a direct way.
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My T has said a couple of these things to me, and no, I do not believe they were being sincere.
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Yes to most of them for current T, many of those for ex-MC, and a fair number for ex-T.
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#11
Variations for like 2 but mostly no. I'd cringe too much because all of that seems to therapist like. That would bug me.
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"You are brave/strong" and the things about insightfulness, intelligence and being psychologically minded. How surprising for a therapy client spending all that time analyzing psychological patterns and paying high $ to share it with them! Both of them also said that I was easy to like/likeable but I did not click the "I care about/like you" option as that has a different connotation. None of the others. I don't think these are very meaningful or specific at all.
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The therapist has said that I am smart and that she cares about me. I didn't believe her when she said these things, and the fact that these appear to be the most frequently used nonsense phrases used by therapists seems to suggest that I was right.
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I put down four:
1: It is an honor/pleasure to work with you (she said that she feels honored when i have shared really hard stuff with her) 2: We get along well (she has said something similar to this, and I agree that we do get along well). 3: You arevery smart/intellgient (she hasn't used the word "very," but she told me I was intelligent, and another T said a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence 4: I care about/like you (she has told me this recently, when I was in the "nut house.") |
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The only one I didn't dismiss was #2.
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#16
My former T said multiple times that she cares about me and I believe her. I think she meant it for sure. New T hasn't said any of this stuff but she did say I have a lot of coping skills. T3 didn't think I had any coping skills and told me so.
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No I dont think she has. She knows I hate compliments and that they do nothing for my esteem so she tends to stay away. I think she once said I was smart.
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#18
you need an 'all the above' selection, because i've heard them all. and here i was thinking that i was the only one stroking anyone's ego in that room....
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None of those were said to me, lol. I stopped seeing every therapist fairly soon. They said some strange, hurtful things to me that really stung so I didn’t go back to them for more.
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