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Re: My T bought me flowers....but I wouldn't take them

Posted by shrinking violet on February 16, 2005, at 12:56:45

In reply to Re: My T bought me flowers....but I wouldn't take them » shrinking violet, posted by judy1 on February 16, 2005, at 11:25:34

>>you are fortunate that you can write- it is also how I communicate with my pdoc or therp when I am too emotional to speak. I hope you give your therp your writings- they will serve as a way for her to help you (and I promise you that she has had other clients who communicate this way).

--Thank you Judy. I'm going to try to bring some writing in to my next session, but I feel like I've given her too much writing already and I need to start saying stuff (she has about 4 folders full of pages I've written). Plus, I'm leery about putting too much in writing anymore (she works for the Uni where I'm a grad student, and because of my eating disorder I'm under the microscope there as it is, and they don't need any more "ammo" on me). And, no, unfortunately I'm the first and only client she's ever had who hasn't been able to talk to her. :-(


>>Once you get into that routine of giving her your notes, I promise that you will start to feel more in control and be able to speak- it may take weeks or months but it WILL happen.

--Well, it's been 2 years and I'm just as stuck now as I was in the beginning. Apart from a handful of sessions where I have been more open, the majority of the time I sit there and hug the pillow and stare at everything in the room but her. And I don't have a lot of time left with her...because she's a Uni T I can't see her once I graduate, so I'm going to have to leave her in a few months. We both feel very pressured because of this, and I KNOW once I leave her I'm going to look back and regret that I've wasted so much time. But even knowing that, I still am not sure how to change it.

Thank you for your response. I'll have to keep relying on the writing for now, I guess, as it's probably better than nothing. I just hope my T and I can get through this and have some good sessions for us to look back on. :-(

Thank you,
SV


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