Do I look like a T?

i feel so stupid..i am so confused

[sunrise]

My T tends not to use a lot of them, but all it takes is for me to ask if I don't understand, and he will explain what he means. These are terms he has used and explained to me:

EMDR (that one took a lot of explanation!)
Trauma
Ego states
Gestalt dreamwork
Negative cognition
Positive cognition
Narcissist Personality Disorder
Healing Circle

Sometimes I don't want to ask him what the word means, so I don't. Sometimes I know but don't really know what it means. Like he says I "dissociate" sometimes. I don't really know what that means, never had it explained to me, but I kind of do know. But I don't want him to explain it to me. Does that make sense? Sometimes I prefer not to get the "official explanation." One time recently he used the phrase "mentally ill" and I don't know what he means by that either, as he has never used it before. I am ready for definitions when I am willing to ask.

Riptide, if your T uses words that confuse you, could you ask him to explain?

[krazibean]

no, she tries to be even with me intelligence wise. not that i'm dumb, or she's really smart, but i think good T's sense where you stand and tend to match it.

[ziggy1]

no mine uses simple down to earth terms......but she realises

that i do know some terminology. Like PTSD...which I have so she

knows I know that one!!!

[tulips30]

My pdoc. told me a few weeks ago that he was very concerned about me "decompensating". I had NO CLUE what he was talking about. It has been explained to me a few times now and the only thing I really understand is that I don't want it!!

I don't want too many details about therapy. My brains are already scrambled and I know I would start imagining things and diagnosing myself. All I know is that I go to t. and we talk. I go to Pdoc. and he gives me prescriptions. I give the prescriptions to my hubby,who is a pharmacist. He brings pills home . I take. Cut & dry.....that's the way I like it.. Some would say that I am not taking responsibility. I think LIVING with these problems is plenty of responsibility!

tulips

[Christina86]

Mine does on occassion. Blame it on the fact that I sometimes use it in session. Apparently I'm very good at analyzing stuff, just not so good with implementing things to change things.

So yeah, my T's have used psychobabble, but I'm a psych major so I understand it for the most part

No my T doesn't use psychobabble. I probably use it more than she does! She's really good about not throwing aroud psych words. If she does use "psychobabble" I usually always understand it just from being social work/psych major.

[RozG]

not unless i do first

Mine does all the time, but that's because I am almost a T, too, lol. So the terms really are a regular part of our conversations. The funny thing is, I will tend to use them more to %#@&#! him off when I'm not in the "feeling" mood.

[Perna]

My T didn't use any terms that I can remember. We just talked to each other and I certainly didn't use any. . . I guess if we did discuss anything related to terms then there was an example/reason so it was clear what a term referred to.

[gimmeice]

If my T uses a word that I don't understand she is really good at explaining it, all I have to do is ask.

[pegasus]

Only if you want me to.

[Brian37]

no....but shes curses like a sailor....its funny sometimes

He only uses them if I've used them. Otherwise, he's pretty understandable. Sometimes I wish that I didn't understand him so I could fill in the blanks myself.

[jacq10]

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yup, same! I'm pretty fluent in psychobabble (my roommates don't particularly appreciate that one though!)

[pegasus]

It really isn't necessary for any T to be bamboozling anyone with psychobabble. The art of effective communication is in making the complicated sound simple.

[Brian37]

i like it when my T says: "Well that aint no fu%&*ng good"

simple and effective

[ECHOES]

Yes mine does but she knows I read a lot and am interested in psychology.

A session or two ago we were talking about holding on to good feelings, taking from a relationship the good things about the relationship or the other person. She was talking about how a young child might sound like their parent(s) in their play or inerractions with others, and I said that was the child internalizing the parent? She laughed softly and said Oh I forget you know some of the terms.

But some of the simplest stuff I can get hung up on and I can't decide at the moment if I understand it, so I have to tell her that then. Most often I say, I'm not sure I'm following you, getting that. And she is glad to say more.

I'm awful at the basics, knowing, naming, and understanding my own emotions. But then that's why I'm there talking to her

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It really isn't necessary for any T to be bamboozling anyone with psychobabble. The art of effective communication is in making the complicated sound simple.

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I don't know why she is doing this.

I still don't understand if understanding them is supposed to help me stop doing them!!! I have no pysch background at all. I am a regular joe-smoe.

This T may not be right for me......

[sidony]

No my T never uses any psychobabble terms. I get the impression that the formal terms aren't part of his typical interaction vocabulary (though he's probably different with other therapists). Even if he normally used those words, I'd bet he wouldn't with me -- I tend to get way too caught up in the intellectual aspects of things where he tries to get me to be more feeling. He's never mentioned anything like transference or anything like that. He talks in a very ordinary fashion. I'm much more stumped on questions of how I feel that I would be on something analytical!

Sidony

ha... i give my T a hard time when he tries to simplify things.. and i ask him a question with harder terms... or make fun of him a little. i enjoy that so much.

ha.. i think i make him earn his money