Posted by Dinah on August 13, 2004, at 13:53:06
I am fighting the urge to cancel my next session because my therapist said something that hurt my feelings.
Well, to be strictly honest, he said he never said that he thought what I was saying was true. I had said that I thought I behaved like an idiot in therapy, and that I was humiliated, etc. And that I agreed that my behavior might be silly. And he said that if I felt that way, I should change it. He was very clear in saying that he wasn't agreeing that my behavior was silly, but...
Anyway, my impulse is that if he wants me to stop acting in a silly way in therapy, that I just won't go to therapy and then I can't possibly act silly. But I sort of know that that sort of thinking is... silly.
The grown up thing to do is to go to therapy, either act the way I normally do or try to change, and either mention it or not mention it. But what's so all fire great about being grown up anyway?
poster:Dinah
thread:377238
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