[MissCharlotte]

Thought we needed a bit of humor to lighten the mood here, so I offer a recap of my funniest moments in therapy:

3. The time I told T I felt like I was jumping out of my skin. I was sitting in the chair and moved to the couch. Then I moved from the couch back to the chair. Still feeling antsy, I got up and walked across the room, took the ottoman in the corner, pushed it over by the chair and sat on that. Then I got up and sat back in the chair. I said to him, "This is a crazy session, isn't it?" He said, "Crazier than some, not as crazy as others." LOLOL


2. The time I sat across from him and put a scarf in front of my face. I said I was acting like a two year old. T said, "That's okay, because that's about where you are right now."

1. The time I was so nervous before one of his dreaded vacations and I went out into the waiting room to get a drink of water, which I proceeded to spill all over his end table, and then try to blot it up with tissues.

Care to share?

Hahahah Miss Charlotte-- all of these stories are familiar to me, but I can hear them again and again! I am pulling an all-nighter with my studying, but I can take a break because this thread definitely deserves my attention.

Ok, here it goes (hard to pick just 3, but I figured I'd follow your format).

#3. The time I fell down the stairs at the previous office. There was a winding staircase. I had just walked out of T's office. He shut the door. All of a sudden I slipped and went crashing down quite a few of the steps. I have no idea if T saw or not. What I do know, however, is that there is no way that he didn't hear the enormous crash that occurred just one second after I left his office. Even though I was in pain, I booked the hell outta there before he could open the door and say, "Are you okay??"

#2. Very early in my therapy, I was talking to T about something I didn't really want to talk about at all. In fact, I just wanted to ignore the subject altogether and take a nap. T asked me, "What should we do?" My brilliant answer: "We should go to bed." With that, I became extremely flustered and attempted to correct my blunder, only making it worse. I began to say, "Well... I meant we should take a nap... but not together... I mean, we should go to sleep... but separately... you know, take naps, but separate naps; not together or anything like that." It was horrifying.

And my #1 funniest moment in therapy: I was angry at T. He was really pissing me off. We were going back and forth. I could tell he was provoking me in order to get me to engage. The anger was really rising. All of a sudden, out of absolutely nowhere, I put my hands up in the air and said, "Ok, so what??? Ya wanna go??" All of a sudden, there was just complete silence. We stared at each other, and then both burst out laughing. T said, "I cannot believe you just challenged me to a physical fight." This was the session that earned me the nickname, "Toughie." T called me that for awhile.

[Brian37]

During a session I let a pretty nasty fart...silent but deadly...had some serious hang time
at one point she put her hand up to block her nostrils at which point I said....

"yeah that was me....you can open the door if you wanna"

after that I was never nervous again.......

[chaotic13]

The only one I can recall at the moment is:
When I wrote my T about the anxiety I was still experiencing. In the message I jokingly asked if there were alternative tx approaches and kidding listed several less mainstream things like hypnosis and candle exercises :-) when my T laughed and remarked about what I had written,she misread my list and changed candle to cradle-- and lunged forward in an exaggerated hugging motion.I swallowed my gum and about **** my pants right there on the ugly couch.After my inital shock and my questioning...Did I really write that? We had a laugh after that exchange.

[MissCharlotte]

OMG guys these are all hilarious. I am laughing out loud.

THANKS I NEEDED THAT!!!!!!!!

"Put up your dukes Pink"

"SBD Brian"

"Rockabye baby Chaotic"

OKay, this wasn't an actual therapy moment but how about the assprint?

For the longest time this larger than me woman had the slot before me in therapy. Every time I would go in the room after her, there was a rather large butt sized impression on the leather chair. I decided to call it the asshole but someone here helped me out with "assprint." I decided I hated sitting in her print and moved to the couch where I've been ever since.

[mlpHolmes]

hahahahaha that's great Miss C!!!

Holmes

LOL

[splitimage]

Years ago, when I was seeing my first pdoc, she worked out of a psych ward, but saw outpatients. One day this alarm went off. She didn't say anything about the alarm, jsut silently got up and proceded to lock the three deadbolts on her door. She then sat down and calmly said "now where were we" I couldn't stop staring at the door. Thank heavens the alarm stopped before my session ended.

--splitimage

[chaotic13]

Splitimage!

I think I remember you posting about this when I first started logging on to PC. I remember being like NO WAY!

[sunrise]

Well, there was the time T asked me what he could do to make if safe for me in his office. I said the lights were too bright and he turned one off. I said still too bright and he walked across the room and turned another light off. I said still too bright and he turned off the last lamp by his chair. It was pitch black. I started laughing hysterically. He joined in.

OK, maybe this doesn't seem that amusing, but it really struck my funny bone at the time. I had this dream where I woke up in the middle of the night because I heard noises in my house and was scared. Thank goodness, T was right there next to me in bed--he was there to protect me. (Don't worry, no ET here--I was under the covers and he was on top. Always good boundaries with my T. ) Anyway, I told him this dream and it was a little tense in the telling--sheesh, how do you tell your therapist you had a dream you were in bed together? So after I related this, I was kind of anxious how he would react, and he says to me, very seriously, "it sounds like you feel deeply partnered to me." That was such a *&#@ing therapist thing to say that it totally cracked me up. I'm not sure if he understood why I was laughing.