Posted by vwoolf on December 9, 2005, at 0:06:29
I haven’t posted for a very long time, but I often read Babble and follow what’s going on in your lives. I have been intrigued by the discussion on how T’s and you all sit in therapy, and your favorite positions. It strikes me how you all seem to stay very still in your chairs. Do none of you ever move around the room?
I started out in therapy sitting in a high backed armchair with my t in a similar one at an angle a few feet away. After a few sessions I began to feel as if I was drowning – I had obviously sunk right down into the chair and could barely get my head over the armrest, lol. One day I slipped off the chair onto the floor and asked her if I she minded if I sat there in future because I couldn’t breathe in the chair. She looked horrified, but offered me her chair, which is where I have sat ever since. With a cushion in front of me and my legs crossed. A power statement, if ever I saw one.
However when I am angry or upset, I get up and roam about the room, picking up toys or various objects. Sometimes I will sit on the couch, sideways, with my arms and legs dangling over to the floor. It’s as if I find myself too constrained by the chair. She tries to keep cool when I am walking around but I am sure she feels very threatened. I have never acted out aggressively, but I have often had impulses to crash a vase to the floor – I have told her about this, and it has become a joke between us. I have occasionally found pieces of broken glass in her room, and she is always quick to tell me that she dropped a glass. I sometimes wonder if any of her other clients really do smash things.
Does anyone else do anything like this.
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