Posted by Karen_kay on January 23, 2004, at 14:07:32
In reply to Crying/Emotions in T's office, posted by QuietHeart on January 22, 2004, at 20:03:54
Hiya! I've been seeing Bubba, my jerk of a therapist (I'm a bit upset with him if you hadn't noticed :)) for almost a year and I've never cried. Now, I've been on the verge of tears a few times, or that's what he says. I deny it completely!!!! He said once that while I was on the verge of tears (I wasn't BTW, OK, so I was) he has been tempted to hug me many times but that isn't professional. So, just because they can't hug you (or some of them can maybe??) or comfort you doesn't mean that they don't want to.
Also, I don't show ANY emotion at all when speaking about traumatic events that happened to me in the past. That isn't uncommon. It's a goal for me to get back to "feeling" some type of emotion about those things, but at this point I don't. It's almost as if I'm talking about someone esle, though I have more emotion when I read posts by other people talking about similar situations than when I talk about these types of things happening to me. Quite sad actually, but it's a coping mechanism that worked at the time. I'd say it is fairly common.
Your therapist is so used to it, it shouldn't even phase him/her. If it concerns you, bring it up. But, honestly, it happens to almost all of us.
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