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Re: My friend who is a T » happyflower

Posted by RealMe on October 10, 2007, at 23:40:53

In reply to Re: My friend who is a T » RealMe, posted by happyflower on October 10, 2007, at 9:45:26

Thanks happyflower. I know this is true, and I know that I was good therapist once and can be again. My T says he can tell I was a good therapist. It still sort of freaks me that he read one of my psych evaluations and said he thought it was really good. That really made me uncomfortable. Once when I was doing my postdoc, my T said he had been asked to be a consultant on a case for a review conference of a patient where I had done the psych testing. He asked me if I would be uncomfortable with him being the consultant, and I said no even though it meant I would be giving a summary of the psych testing and how I thought it fit with what was going on with the patient at the time. I even looked him in the eye across the table, but it was sort of weird in a way. He told me later that he was impressed, and he would tell me at times how often he would hear about how well I did with my hospital patients and my therapy patients. Seems like I should have been able to keep my sh*t together all these years later, but here I am dealing with the sh*t I thought was resolved in my mind. T would just laugh at my statements that I was fine, and my past was no longer and issue. He knew, I think, that I needed to keep it together, and he also knew I was doing well for real. We never know for sure when something will decide to rear it's ugly head. My opinion is that we will always have things to work on until the day we die, and even then we have to work on dying that day. So, thanks for your words; they mean a lot.

RealMe


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