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#1
Dec 02, 2008, 03:06 PM
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Would it bother you if you found out that you were your t's longest-running patient? Since I have been seeing her for 9 years, I recently started wondering if she has had other patients in treatment this long, so I asked her. Turns out I'm the longest-running patient she's ever had. I don't know if it makes me feel special, or if it makes me feel. . . well. . . that I must be terribly screwed up to be in therapy this long.
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Dec 02, 2008, 03:08 PM
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I would be glad to have been with a therapist that long. I have only seen my therapist 5 times. He has actually requested I come in twice a week now. Great.... I'm really screwed up.
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Dec 02, 2008, 03:14 PM
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I have been seeing my T for a little over two years and I am her longest-running patient, at this point it doesn't really bother me. I hope that I get to see my T for twenty years though.
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Dec 02, 2008, 04:33 PM
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I have been seeing my T a little over two years also. I have this fantasy of staying with him until he retires!
I know last year he mentioned that he had a client who had been seeing him for five years and I don't know if he still sees this guy. But I guess that means he sees people for a long time.
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Dec 02, 2008, 04:34 PM
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I hope to be T's longest-running patient someday
 
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Dec 03, 2008, 10:06 PM
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Dec 04, 2008, 08:55 AM
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Peaches,
You have some PC comrades in this with you. I hold the distinct "longest running patient" title as well, and justt like you, I don't know if that's such a good thing or not. I'm leaning more towards not. 
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Dec 04, 2008, 10:36 AM
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I've got it sewn up. No one will ever be longer term than I am. My therapist says glumly that no one could ever beat me - he'll be dead first. Charming therapist.
I consider it a good thing. But I'm weird that way. He'll never forget me, that's for sure.
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#9
Dec 04, 2008, 04:08 PM
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I've been in therapy with my T for over 10 years now. I had no idea how messed up I was when I started. But she does lots of long term therapy so I have no idea if I'm her longest running client or not.
Part of me can't believe I'm still in therapy, particularly when I think about what it's costing me, but I know I still have a lot of issues to work on. ---splitimage
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#10
Dec 05, 2008, 09:51 AM
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I'm glad to know that some others here have been in therapy quite awhile also. . .or would like to be!
My therapist says she will most likely retire within the next few years. I am SOOOOO dreading that. I can't even think or talk about it, I get too upset. I asked my t if she would please try to give me a year to prepare. . .
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Dec 05, 2008, 10:35 AM
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 My T was always v. caring & compassionate 24/7. I remember congratulating him on the birth of his 1st daughter, then his 2nd daughter and I'm sure I paid both their college tuitions for under grad & grad schools. And I probably helped him pay off his beautiful home, close to his exclusive Country Club where both daughters had beautiful weddings. LOL. xoxoHolmes |
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#12
Dec 05, 2008, 02:58 PM
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My T told me straight off that she didn't believe in long term (meaning years) of therapy..
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Dec 05, 2008, 03:25 PM
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Wow,
My new T just told me during my first visit this past week that often when people suffer from sexual abuse therapy tends to take a long time. I laughed and said yes, when I first started therapy I went with the intention of just going and getting over this. Now 11 months later, I feel like I still have not let alot out but that my other T said that I am much more trusting than most who come in. She told me that often more mature people tend to work really hard at healing and can very well move forward faster, I guess I will have to wait and see. My first T said that it all depends on the person as well, and that sometimes it does take a long time. When I first started therapy I would had dreaded the thought of being T longest running patient. Now in a sense I still do, I want to heal but I don't want therapy to control my life so to speak, I don't want to have to think about it every week for the rest of my life, if that makes sense. I just want to live and be happy. Before I left my first appointment with my new T, I said do people really heal from this, she said yes, but healing means many different things to different people. Its getting to the place where you want to be personally. I have no idea how its all going to go. I guess only time will tell. Hangingon
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#14
Dec 05, 2008, 03:37 PM
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I saw my T for nine years, twice! :-) I try not to compare myself to what other people are doing as it's apples to oranges. I wanted to be in therapy and for that long, so I was.
I'm with mlpHolmes, my T the second 9 years started comparing me to her granddaughter! LOL.
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