Posted by daisym on August 14, 2004, at 0:47:49
In reply to I am being unbelievably silly, posted by Dinah on August 13, 2004, at 13:53:06
Oh Dinah,
It sounds like a conflict between your more rational side and your emotional side. Why did that rational side decide to speak up in therapy? She must have been paying attention to what your emotional side was doing.
You always tell me that there needs to be room for both sides in therapy. That an agreement about whose turn it is must be kept. Maybe the need to be "silly" or childlike is what your emotional and younger-self needs and wants. After all, this is the part of you that NEEDS therapy.
My guess is that you don't act silly at all. You are just emotionally honest and this gets under your rational sides skin. You've also said that you see no need to integrate these two sides...so they both need room to be who they are, right?
Give yourself a break. I'm sure your therapist doesn't think you are silly at all. Nor did he mean to hurt your feelings. It is probably a case of him following your lead. I hate it when they "miss" like that!
Come out to Open and play sometime with little daisy. She misses you.
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