Posted by shortelise on October 28, 2004, at 17:52:11
In reply to feel bad for therapist, posted by rubenstein on October 25, 2004, at 19:18:40
I too have felt sorry for my T on many occasions.But he chose this profession.
I assume that it is rewarding in some way. I figure that whatever stage of therapy I'm in, he has others who are at other stages. So when I was in a stage where I wanted to rip him to shreds, hopefully he had other patients who were more in their "real" relationship with him.
Today when I saw him, he was pretty lighthearted. He helps me talk about things I need to understand, but we also laugh sometimes.
It must be fulfilling for him to see such a change in me, to have watched me go from so much darkness to way less darkness. He knows that he helped me get here.
That must be what they hope for, do you think? I mean, we go to them because the darkness is too much, and they help us out of it. That could be a great feeling.
But yes, I know I put mine through it, I would get so sngry at him, and so mean. I felt really guilty about it until he said something about it all being part of a process. I started to cry when he said that, and he guessed why - I had thought I was just a @#$%^. I wasn't. WHy I am weeping as I write this, I don't know.
ShortE
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