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May 10, 2024 at 01:40 PM
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If your therapist was mentiong her own therapist a few times and being in therapy and also the meds she has been on and saying stuff like "I love Wellbutrin?"
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May 10, 2024 at 02:58 PM
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No - I never cared about what the therapist took or who they saw. The therapist talking about it would have been no more or less pointless than anything else the woman talked about
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May 10, 2024 at 03:24 PM
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No it wouldn't bother me too much, it'd tell me, okay, this person has had struggles too, so there's common ground.
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May 11, 2024 at 04:50 AM
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My curiosity about my past T would have lapped that info up... Would have been beneficial to my Therapy? I doubt it.. Curiosity doesn't equal healing.. But I wouldn't have at that point the ability to question the T as to why they are sharing that.. I was dependent on T doing what was good for me and protecting me from her impulses and now I can say looking back and knowing what I know now, that T did... I'm glad she never shared anything like that.. Now I'd question a T if they did and wonder who was the client and who was the therapist.. So bother? No, concern? yes ..
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May 11, 2024 at 08:32 AM
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It wouldn't really bother me. My former marriage counselor talked a bit about his issues with anxiety and that he'd had a lot of his own therapy. It made me feel like he understood me more. Though I might feel a little odd about about the "I love Wellbutrin" part. I'm not entirely sure why. Like I feel "Wellbutrin has really helped me" would bother me less.
I wish my current therapist had been in therapy more--unless he was lying, he said he only was in it for the amount of time required for his PhD/certification. It feels like his own issues get in the way of our therapy at times. And I'm not sure he understands what it's like to be on the client side. |
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May 11, 2024 at 09:38 AM
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Depends on which therapist I had that said that.
I've had some I'd be like, "yeah, schedule all the appointments you can get because I think you need it more than me," but with the last T I had for more than a few months who I now realize was a bit of an FP to me, I would wonder how much she bytches about me and says she wants to drop me. 
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May 11, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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It's not very ethical for a T to keeo seeing you if they'd rather "drop you".. I know my T said, she wouldn't see someone she didn't feel she could work with.. And *****ing about a client?
Then they're not up to the job... Soundsmore love sch playground behaviour... But thrn I weren't private and T was neve made to see a certain work load and had had her own therapy... That gives a greater insight to others and an understanding of even the most difficult client with the need to "*****" |
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May 11, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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She probably didn't really want to drop me, or talk about specifically how bad of a client I am. I just liked her and had/have that major fear of abandonment especially when I felt like I was frustrating her last summer--switching all my appointments to phone appointments so I could spend the day drinking and answer the phone at 2pm crying the whole hour being resistant to any treatment. She probably was frustrated by that, but obviously was determined to help. At one point she helped me get into medical detox/rehab, and she even picked me up when I got discharged. I was doing well. She complimented my pants, and things between us just seemed a lot better.
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