Posted by Catmom on January 13, 2004, at 1:35:03
In reply to Re: It isn't you! » gardenergirl, posted by Raindancer on January 11, 2004, at 18:03:34
Raindancer, sometimes it really is the therapist. The T can, potentially, (And I am not diagnosing your own T, just going by my past experiences) have had a really bad night's sleep; maybe he or she is coming down with the flu, maybe there are problems in his or her family.
I had what I would call a "bad" session several months ago. T was fidgeting, acting unusually irritable, yanking at her necklace so hard I felt that she would break it. I was talking about my own diffidence in general and she burst out, quite uncharacteristically, "I don't know what you want me to say"....I told her that I didn't need her to say ANYTHING, that I just wanted to talk.
I had the feeling that I had caught her on a very bad day, when she was not doing her best. And even though therapists (mostly) probably try really hard, they, like us, are stuck within the confines of a human body and have all the attendant ills that civilians do.
So...unless this develops into a real pattern, I think that an isolated bad session can just be chalked up to the fact that we are all human.
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