... leaves her tissues in the waste paper bin. Oh hi lady, £uck you for having the ability to show emotion in session. It's the therapeutic equivalent of not flushing the toilet after you've used it. If only our (oh the horror, why can't she just be mine?...) therapist had the awareness and sensitivity to clean up after you.


And whilst we are at it, stop sending our therapist cards and playing around with the crystal on the table because I notice it all.

What pisses you off about the client before you? Or, possibly more interestingly, what might piss off the client after you?

[Spangle]

In my head, my t doesn’t have ANY other clients. He did in the past, but that was b4 I came along.

Originally Posted by Spangle

In my head, my t doesn’t have ANY other clients. He did in the past, but that was b4 I came along.

What a coincidence! I am the only client too! Apart from the emotionally literate tissue monster who sits in the chair before me.

[Spangle]

Originally Posted by SorryOozit

What a coincidence! I am the only client too! Apart from the emotionally literate tissue monster who sits in the chair before me.

It’s lovely being that only special & of course the best client isn’t it. We are both very lucky
If I see something in the room that ‘I’ don’t think belongs there, I question him over it & he always says it must belong to one of the other t’s that shares the room.

[piggy momma]

Omg. That would gross me out.

I’d like to think I’m my therapists only client too. I think he honestly only has a couple because he said that almost all his clients have graduated. So, I don’t have to deal with client before me or after me issues, but his chairs are spotless white and I often wonder what would happen if someone had an accident and soiled one. And it freaks me out to sit in the same place all his other clients have sat. At my last therapist I sat on the floor, but his office is too small for that.

[LonesomeTonight]

Well, today apparently the client before me had a cold, so T wiped down the couch in Lysol wipes, which kinda give me a headache. (I have done chemical sensitivity issues). I appreciate that he was trying to keep me from getting sick, yet there are more natural ways to do that.

[SalingerEsme]

Originally Posted by SorryOozit

... leaves her tissues in the waste paper bin. Oh hi lady, £uck you for having the ability to show emotion in session. It's the therapeutic equivalent of not flushing the toilet after you've used it. If only our (oh the horror, why can't she just be mine?...) therapist had the awareness and sensitivity to clean up after you.


And whilst we are at it, stop sending our therapist cards and playing around with the crystal on the table because I notice it all.

What pisses you off about the client before you? Or, possibly more interestingly, what might piss off the client after you?

The client after me is a waif -style teenager with a backpack and cornflower blue eye the same color as my T's. I remember being that age, and I am not sure if I am jealous she grabs my T's attention and he forgets me immediately for her, or just that she is timeless and I miss being that young .

Originally Posted by piggy momma

Omg. That would gross me out.

I’d like to think I’m my therapists only client too. I think he honestly only has a couple because he said that almost all his clients have graduated. So, I don’t have to deal with client before me or after me issues, but his chairs are spotless white and I often wonder what would happen if someone had an accident and soiled one. And it freaks me out to sit in the same place all his other clients have sat. At my last therapist I sat on the floor, but his office is too small for that.

I am one of two clients and it is one too many other clients.

[piggy momma]

Originally Posted by SorryOozit

I am one of two clients and it is one too many other clients.

Totally get it. I told my last T I didn’t want him seeing other clients, even tho it was his only income lol.

My current T basically does therapy on the side. He’s a PhD psychologist but also a university professor and priest, so his plate is pretty full. I told him I am jealous of the other students in his class too. I want to be his only client and student.

[lucozader]

Hah!

There is no client before or after me. My T doesn't see any other clients on the day that he sees me. He teaches on Wednesdays.

I can answer your second question, though - I often fill up the bin with snotty tissues. Sorry about that.

Originally Posted by lucozader

I can answer your second question, though - I often fill up the bin with snotty tissues. Sorry about that.

I knew it!! You little bugger.

[ChickenNoodleSoup]

I don‘t notice anything about the client before me. My T makes sure to have enough time in between, to clean up and to let fresh air in each time. Sometimes it‘s a bit cold due to that, but I can deam with that.

Oh, and the client after me... they might be annoyed by the fact that my T frequently takes more than an hour to finish with me. And sometimes I leave tears on the leather chairs which still are there a week after, so maybe other clients notice.

[Echos Myron redux]

I feel like he doesn't usually have a client right before me. One week I saw him coming back from a walk with his wife while I was sitting in my car waiting for session time. He also has lots of supervisees and other types of clients for the various strands of his work so I doubt he has a great many therapy clients anyway. I've never noticed anything different about his room except the occasional new thing popping up, like a new ornament, which I guess might be from a client.

[toomanycats]

I once accidentally stumbled onto something the client before me wrote on a notepad and left in our T's office. Our T had gone to the bathroom, I saw the notepad, immediately realized what it was & STOPPED reading it and put it on his desk then alerted him when he got in. All I know is that it said "I am the saddest girl in the world." I've often wished I read the rest of it but also glad that I didn't.

For the most part, I don't think about T's other clients. A few sparing thoughts of "I'm scared of being replaced by someone new who is more interesting" or "other peoples' trauma is so much worse and more valid than mine."

I obsessed over my ex-T's clients and couldn't even go into the building until I was sure they had left. But, it's not like that with this T. Ex-T talked about his clients a lot, and this one doesn't...so that's different...but our relationship is also just more secure.

Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup

I don‘t notice anything about the client before me. My T makes sure to have enough time in between, to clean up and to let fresh air in each time. Sometimes it‘s a bit cold due to that, but I can deam with that.

Oh listen to you with your client-sensitive therapist! Show off.

Originally Posted by Echos Myron redux

I've never noticed anything different about his room except the occasional new thing popping up, like a new ornament, which I guess might be from a client.

What the hell is wrong with you? This should be enough to invoke the kind of fury and jealously which nothing can resolve!!

Originally Posted by toomanycats

I once accidentally stumbled onto something the client before me wrote on a notepad and left in our T's office. Our T had gone to the bathroom, I saw the notepad, immediately realized what it was & STOPPED reading it and put it on his desk then alerted him when he got in. All I know is that it said "I am the saddest girl in the world." I've often wished I read the rest of it but also glad that I didn't.

There's something genuinely melancholic about this.

[Spangle]

Originally Posted by SorryOozit

Oh listen to you with your client-sensitive therapist! Show off.

That’s so funny

[Echos Myron redux]

Originally Posted by SorryOozit

What the hell is wrong with you? This should be enough to invoke the kind of fury and jealously which nothing can resolve!!

Well there a few bits and pieces in there left by me too!

I have a weird double edged feeling of pride when I hear of someone else who has worked with him, and a tinge of jealousy too. I was recently talking to someone, and when I mentioned who my T was she said "Oh my friend saw him and she gave me his number, said he was amazing, and she's never had therapy like it". Hah.

I wasn't bothered by her having other clients since she moved back here, so happy to see her in person again and stuff. But I do persist in the fantasy that i was her favorite client. Might have been the longest at 7+ years but I don't know for sure I never asked.

eta: it wasn't always like that though. during my first year prior to her move out of state, one day I when I went in and sat down in the waiting room I saw her clipboard on the table with a new client form and her business card sitting there. I had to fight the urge to throw it on the floor and stomp on it while shouting "My t! My t!" haha. I told her about that a year or so ago and she got a chuckle out of it.

[MRT6211]

I’m in a program and so I know who T’s other clients are, and I know them personally. The worst is that I really don’t get along with one of her other clients, so sometimes a topic in our session is vindictive stuff this ***** did to me...T is really professional about it. I like to think she takes my “side,” she seems to in session, always says “consider the source” about the other client, but who knows if she says the same thing to the other client...

[LonesomeTonight]

I felt kinda bad for the client my T had after me today. He ran a bit over with me (and said it was totally his fault), and she stood up when I opened the door, presumably expecting it to be him, then saw me and sat back down. I gave her an apologetic look. (Sunday is not a usual day for me--usually he has teen/young adult guys or a married couple right after me, if anyone. Felt a bit different seeing another female, who looked younger than me.)

[InkyBooky]

I always pack-out my used tissues.

[TeaVicar?]

There's a head shaped dent in the cushion, on the couch. Ouch.

I don't know whether it's the cheating that hurts the most, or the fact that she (I'm making wild assumptions here) is obviously laying down for her sessions! I always think the 'couch' clients are his favourites because they are doing 'proper' therapy.

[piggy momma]

Originally Posted by SorryOozit

I am one of two clients and it is one too many other clients.

Originally Posted by MRT6211

I’m in a program and so I know who T’s other clients are, and I know them personally. The worst is that I really don’t get along with one of her other clients, so sometimes a topic in our session is vindictive stuff this ***** did to me...T is really professional about it. I like to think she takes my “side,” she seems to in session, always says “consider the source” about the other client, but who knows if she says the same thing to the other client...

Yes!! I also have my T for class, and I HATE one of the girls in class (because she’s always flirting with him) and when I talk about he let to him I get totally b*tchy and he always has to bring me down a level.