Posted by Dinah on January 3, 2003, at 10:29:43
In reply to Re: Questionnaire for rating your therapist... » Dinah, posted by mikhail99 on January 3, 2003, at 9:06:55
> And one more thing, I think you can rely more on your feelings and intuitions than you give yourself credit for. I know it's hard, when our perceptions are so colored by depression, anxiety and stuff, I find it's hard to trust my perceptions but from reading your posts, I think you have a very good handle on what's going on in your sessions. (For what that's worth!)
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It's worth a lot. Thank's Mik. Actually you may be right. One of the advantages of this board is that posting things sometimes helps me sort through them and figure things out a bit. And after I wrote what I did, I realized that he's probably stumbled onto the same approach with me that a brilliant therapist would have taken.I am unbelievably stubborn and contrary. If he pushed me or tried to make me see something, I'd probably dig my heels in and resist all the way. By making me do all the research and work myself then come into therapy and say "Hey, do you think this could be true about me and I should do this about it" and him answering something like maybe so, progress is slower but probably more lasting. I just hope that when I come in and present something he's competent to know whether or not I'm on the right track and assertive enough to say so. Sigh.
Not that I think for one single moment that he has thought this out as well as I have. Another sigh. I don't think he thinks it out at all.
And while he's not deliberately thoughtless or insensitive, he is a bit obtuse sometimes.
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