Posted by Dinah on November 13, 2008, at 14:06:04
In reply to Re: And of course » Dinah, posted by gardenergirl on November 13, 2008, at 13:35:59
True enough.
I remember after Katrina, I was whining about the inequality of caring or something. How I really cared whether I continued to see him, and how it didn't seem to matter as much to him.
He told me that it did matter to him on one level. That he enjoyed seeing me, and would hate to lose me as a client. But that it would never have the same intensity because he was a part of my support system and I wasn't part of his support system.
Dang it. He knows how to disarm me. Because of course he was right. It couldn't be therapy if he was reaching out to me to lean on in an emergency. I guess he showed his caring by making an effort to be there at all when he was in trouble himself.
And... to be fair, I suppose they do pay a price too. By definition almost. So it's more fair to say why do we have to pay a price too? And again, I guess there's no way to get around that.
They haven't figured out a way to license only people who will never be affected by their own lives.
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