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Re: Frustrated! » pegasus

Posted by emmaley on March 28, 2004, at 20:59:02

In reply to Re: Frustrated!, posted by pegasus on March 27, 2004, at 17:18:09

Thanks for the support! I got over the irritated feelings fairly quickly.....leaving him a message helped. I usually try to contain things for while to see how I feel once some time passes....but this time I didn't feel like waiting, and it helped! (I also told him not to call me back, because I don't want to reopen this with him until our next session where there will be more time and space to process more fully.)

I really think it's good to check things out directly with your T when you realize that something bothers you about the session. At the very least, you get say it and the two of you get to talk about it. At the very best, it might offer as an opportunity to look at our relational patterns and if it's old stuff being triggered at therapy or that the therapist indeed messed up--then they get to apologize and you get to forgive. I tend to think the therapists respond okay when the client is not overtly angry or hateful.....not that they don't when the client is indeed hateful or angry, but it does get more challenging.

I don't think I was hateful or anrgy....not that angry.....but irritated.

(Okay, you can tell my thoughts are drifting all over the place. What am I talking about now?)

But, THANK YOU! I really feel supported.


> Sounds super frustrating! I was really glad to hear that you called him to tell him why you were frustrated. I bet you'll have a much better session next week. I think sometimes they're just off in the way they say things. Or maybe he was just altogether off yesterday. Anyway, I hope you can get some of that icky feeling out of your system. Maybe try throwing things around, or singing along to an angry song or something.
>
> I had a similar one yesterday. Went in feeling all great, and at some point started talking about a sad thing in my life, and my T says, "I'm confused about what we're doing here. Is this an important thing for us to be talking about?" So...well...that shut me up. Totally discombobulated me for the rest of the day. I was confused about why she was confused! It felt like she thought I was doing something wrong, but I couldn't figure out what. And it had been a *good* day.
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> I'm with you. Bleeeeaaagggghhh on therapy.
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> - p
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>


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