Posted by 10derheart on February 16, 2013, at 18:34:01
In reply to Re: trial run, posted by Dr. Bob on February 15, 2013, at 14:37:18
>>The Borg is involved now to explain and demonstrate this technique. Would it feel more comfortable if the Borg stepped back?
You appear to be casting *yourself* as the Borg. Did you think that's what I said or meant? I didn't. I used a simile comparing you (or anyone) asking about "being joined with me" to what that fictional collective might say if they cared (doubtful) whether a new creature could tell or detect it was now joined to the rest of the collective. It was comparing the tone and connotation of *the question* asking Dinah about feeling joined, not really the entity asking the question.
I don't see you as the Borg. I can't think of redeeming qualities of the Borg, and you have many of those. If the Borg was explaining or demonstrating a technique (again, doubtful) I wouldn't even care at all. Although I won't lose sleep pondering this thread, I care....at least to the extent it matters enough to you to write about it, and, because I believe your feelings here are as valid as anyone else's.
Whether or not we are on the same page, I am willing to peruse your page to see what you see in it....usually.
Anyway...still artificial and awkward no matter whether you step forward, back or sideways. Inherent in what you are doing, especially with some of us who have been in long term therapy and/or voraciously read about it. I have an involuntary Technique-o-Meter that operates with a bit of a cynical outlook in those times it seems a person is doing something *to* me or (at the risk of making Dinah blush again) trying something *on me.* Not to mention, which I think may be what Phillipa was alluding to, it gives a conversation here more that a whiff of group therapy which is disconcerting coming from you, for obvious reasons.
MDD (presently in complete remission); ADD-Inattentive type; mild anxiety (not fomally dx'd)
Meds: Strattera 80 mg q day
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