Posted by Dinah on May 1, 2005, at 16:28:08
In reply to Re: (Can I ask y'all something sensitive?) » Dinah, posted by Tamar on May 1, 2005, at 16:14:11
> It might be more obvious in real life, where there’s body language and tone of voice, than on Babble, where things like that may be inferred from language but aren’t so overt.
Hmmmm... Perhaps so. And sometimes it's more obvious than others even here. You know, I think part of it is just a desire to be *seen* or *known*. Something like that. I remember how I felt the first time my therapist *knew*. I never ever told him. Not unless he asked.
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> It’s interesting that you describe your physical body as a person who looks like your mother. Do you look down at yourself and see your mother? Is your resistance to adulthood connected to this resemblance to your mother?
>Undoubtedly. On many levels. Some absolutely weird and Freudian, some a lot more superficial and obvious. We're exploring the weird Freudian ones right now, and it's leaving me quite anxious between sessions. I so want my therapist to understand, but I guess it's unfair of me. He's been asking some tentative reality testing questions though, and I'm not sure I like that. I guess I'm not supposed to recognize reality testing questions.
But yes. It is a serious misfortune that I so closely resemble my mother.
People tell me that sometimes, and I always think "How can they think that's a polite or acceptable thing to say?"
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