Posted by pegasus on March 28, 2004, at 23:12:43
In reply to Re: About topics in therapy sessions » tinydancer, posted by Elle2021 on March 28, 2004, at 21:21:50
My T always starts by just looking at me. I have to say the first thing, which I hate. My old T used to start by asking me how I am, which I didn't like either. I think there's no winning that one. ;-)
I used to always feel that there wasn't enough time, with my old T. With my new one, so far it has seemed like just about the right amount of time. Until this week, when I started talking about random stuff (although not irrelevant stuff) and she stopped me and said she was confused about what we were doing. Which confused the heck out of me. I thought we were just talking about whatever came to my mind. I think she was trying, in an awkward way, to see whether I was putting up a smoke screen of life trivia so I wouldn't have to talk about the hard stuff I'd been getting into lately. But it felt like she thought I was doing something wrong.
But, I also wondered if maybe she just found it boring. At the end, she gave me this look that I couldn't interpret that seemed kind of negative to me. As if she were annoyed, or angry or something. Who knows! And who knows what she's interested in hearing anyway. This is one of those super frustrating things about therapy to me. Somehow I'm just supposed to come up with stuff to talk about, but then sometimes it's the wrong stuff apparently, and I have no idea what the he** is supposed to happen in there anyway.
Sorry, got off on a frustrated tangent there.
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