Ah, screw this/T's funniest line ever/Meditation

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Here I am.

DustFinder, you are starting to bore me by creeping into every post I make to say the same thing.

OK pink, tell us about your latest avatar/icon. What is it?, what's it mean? I'm really bored tonight. If you can spice it up a bit with errrotic transference I would really appreciate it.

Hey, I know what it is... some Kama Sutra tapestry!

If it has some profound significance, please accept my apology in advance. I can't really make out what the image really is.

I was just basically looking at Buddhist art and I was really attracted to that particular piece. I wish I could somehow put a spin of erotic transference into it, but it wouldn't really be related.

So in that case, I'll just say...

Sometimes my T looks hot in the color black and I want to jump in his lap.

There ya go. Erotic Transference, brought you to by PinkSoil.

How is pink *not* hiding her identity? I assume her real name isn't pinksoil

Pink, I'm glad you're back. I learn a lot from your posts.

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How is pink *not* hiding her identity? I assume her real name isn't pinksoil

Pink, I'm glad you're back. I learn a lot from your posts.



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LOL, nope-- that's me. First name Pink, last name Soil. However, for confidentiality purposes, I will NOT be revealing my middle name!! So there!

Wow - I just went and read most of that *other* thread, pink.
And I am here to tell ya, that dude with icon of the cat firing a gun insanely with all the fire behind it..... there's some serious **** behind that - and to pull all that stuff on you... Pot calling the kettle... you know?!? I think reading that other post made me MORE ALARMED about the nature of psychology than anything. You really want to join? I do hope these students have super good mentors and can help them to make better assumptions. Some had good points and were ok, and some.... makes me feel REALLY LUCKY i have the t I do. Makes me feel really freaked out that these peeps are reading OUR posts!!!

It's really none of my business, but I wouldn't want anyone online knowing my name, town, employer or school - especially in light of the posts over at SDN.

> I am not going to hide my identity just because I am a therapist who also happens to be ill. I appreciate the concern from some and also the support from those who have encouraged me to be myself. If I decided to hide out it would go against everything I believe in.

I was reading this book the other day:

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Selected-.../dp/0521670241

Velleman is a proff at NYU who writes on the nature of the self and personal identity. I really enjoyed the first essay. One of the things that he discusses is the present, western concept of identity. We seem to have this notion that to 'be yourself' involves expressing everything that is on your mind. That if you don't express everything that is on your mind then you are 'not being yourself' in some way.

But of course we do have a notion of appropriateness. For example, I think that you said something about how it would be inappropriate for you to disclose about your own struggles with mental illness to your clients. One can empathize without engaging in discussion about why one can empathize etc.

I don't think that anyone was saying that you shouldn't discuss your struggle in appropriate settings. What people were concerned with, however, was the appropriateness of posting things that enable Pinksoil to be identifyable to a unique individual IRL given that your clients might well be reading and / or posting here. Directly self disclosing your struggle to them in session is (I think you agree) inappropriate. People were concerned about how much posting a conjunction of identifying information here and details of your personal struggle here was an indirect self disclosure to clients / potential clients that might be similarly inappropriate.

Again: How would you feel if you found that your therapist posted here about struggling with suicide on an almost daily basis and / or self injuring himself? Calling his therapist in a panicked state just before sessions? Would you feel like there was something inappropriate in posting such that you could identify him as a unique individual? Would you feel... Betrayed somehow?

Is that a path you really want to make it likely that you will go down?

How is that not likely to result in your patient becoming therapist to you?

I think a lot of the folks in the other thread didn't really read everything, either. a lot of the arguments were based on assumptions rather than facts. and then coming in here and bringing in new arguments.... the whole thing was out of hand. It was a good thing the other post was locked - my temper flaired several times. *grin*.

It is hard when the conversation disintegrates into polarities. Easier sometimes to let ones attention focus on the polarized views, instead of the views where people are trying to integrate or synthesize various aspects.

Things seemed to have disintegrated rather, and people were just saying the same old thing... The thread didn't seem to be progressing, so I guess locking it was understandable. I do think it is a shame, though, that discussion degenerates at times.

I think that different ways of resolving tensions is interesting. But sometimes... People are more interested in making a point. It is hard, yeah.

I like and respect Pinksoil a great deal. But I do struggle a bit with various tensions in her position (mostly because I have similar tensions in living my own life). FIguring out the range of different solutions and challenging some thoughts (e.g., if I don't act in x way then I'm not being true to myself) is part of gaining greater appreciation of ones options such that one can see a variety of different possibilities of ways of being. I guess people feel threatened when others suggest different ways, though. It is hard. Egos are fragile (across the board). I don't know.

A reminder to all.....discussing admin issues is against guidelines. Discussing and bringing issues from a thread (especially one that was locked) to another thread is also against guidelines. Continued discussion of those things will bring about the locking of this thread as well. Thanks for understanding!

sabby

Discussing admin issues *on other boards* is against the guidelines? The 'locked thread' refers to a thread that was locked at *another site*. Thanks for understanding!

maybe Pm admin with your concerns

can we go back to the regularly scheduled programming as suggested now? i think it was funniest line... meditation and something about silly hats

Pink... the artwork you have is the Buddha Life story

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This hand painted thangka in red depicts the entire life story of Lord Gautuma Buddha. All the historic part of Buddha's life is depicted visually in the Buddha Life Thangka: Conception, Birth, Education, Life in the royal palace, The Great Departure, Escape, Austerities, Enlightenment, The Subjugation of Mara, Doctrine, Miracles, and Paranirvana. All these stages are shown in the Buddha Life Thangka Painting in great details. In Tibetan Buddhism thangkas are used for meditation and this thangka is a valuable asset for the meditator. The mediator will begin upon the lower right corner and slowly scan over the entire piece reliving the life of Gautuma Buddha in his practice. Along with its ritualistic value, it is also remarkable in its precision and details.

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Yes, let's get back on the OP's original topic, which is funniest therapist lines ever... Here's one for you, told to me by my therapist at the time:

"Why don't you like me?"

Uh, okay... Do you really want me to list the reasons??!



DocJohn

you're not also asking *us* for a list... are you doc? hahahahahahaha sorry, couldn't resist!

my T wanted me to eat.. just eat anything, but eat healthy was a higher priority.. he launched into how i could eat melon.. some nutrients but not as objectionable to me as higher carb/cal/fat foods. As he went on (and on and on) about self care, i fumed. He finally noticed the steam pouring from my ears and asked what was up...

"i wanted to talk about serious things and all i get is %#@&amp;#! melons!"

His response, and in all innocence, "I stand behind my melons"

Do you think [what you did] was kind of crazy?

I love that he'll joke about the word crazy.

He also said that I was a tough nut to crack. But I don't think he got the joke.

I think T's funniest line was just this week. He said:

"Okay, we're having too much fun. What are we avoiding?"

Here is my other favorite.

Since I was in transition between jobs I have been way behind on my bills, including my car payments.

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on my stoop and I happened to be talking to T on the phone and checking my mailbox at the same time. I found three identical envelopes from my car company. T was in the middle of saying something and I interrupted him by saying, "Holy crap-- Hyundai sent me three pieces of mail on the same day. This is beyond not good."

With the most dry voice you can imagine, T goes, " Maybe you won something. "

I burst out laughing.

--MissCharlotte, I love your T's line!!

Not exactly a funny line, but I had an online relationship go down the drain after over 2 years of writing daily.. because I had the audacity to call it a "friendship". So while I was dealing with that loss whenever T or I would need to use the word "friendship" in session, we referred to it as "the F word"

LOL!!!!!!!

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Uh, okay... Do you really want me to list the reasons??!

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> <font color="green">Ahh, I know this is supposed to be funny but personally, I feel almost threatened by that one! Heart in throat, stomach in knots and eyes tearing up. What do you mean you don't like me??? A whole list of reasons?!? OMGoodness! Time to find a deep hole to hide in.
Although T and I laugh often I can't think of one thing we laughed about now. sorry. </font>

Dahlia - Did you realize DocJohn was the *patient* in that story? Talking to his T? Teasing about the reasons he didn't like his T?

Take care,

S

I posted this one recently about my therapist playing the game "Sorry" with one of my little guys who is highly competetive. He LOVES playing with my T, she's his favorite opponent. She gets into it, just like he does. He got a "sorry card" and knocked off one of her guys. And he said in the sweetest little voice something along the lines of, "I say this with the deepest sincerity, I'm sorry". And she turned and went "YEAH RIGHT, I've MET YOU BEFORE!"

There was a time she made a mistake in scheduling, giving away our "normal time slot". One of us said sarcastically, "Ugh! How could you?! You... You're perfect! How could that be?" And she said very excitedly, practically jumping up and down, "I LIKE making mistakes. I made a mistake, I made a mistake".

The same competitive little one ADORES our T and always says he is our T's "other man". A while back when we were first going to church we went to the one our T happened to go to. He told her that he was going to go up and snuggle inbetween T and her hubby and introduce himself (in a 22 yr old/female body) as T's "other man"...

My therapist is sooo funny. I wish I could remember more of her and our comments that have made us just completely burst out laughing in session. The laughter is so healing.

My T says the one thing he knows for sure after being a T for over 40 yrs that is quite profound, is that homosapiens are one %#@&#! up species.