Posted by seldomseen on February 24, 2009, at 18:57:02
In reply to What my therapist says, for what it's worth., posted by Dinah on February 23, 2009, at 18:15:23
babble does come up every now and then in my therapy as well, more lately than in the past.
Some of the more "emotionally dumpy" posts I actually take in to therapy. Interestingly, he's less interested in what I have to say, but how I emotionally react to what others posted or didn't. But, then again, he's usually less interested in what happened, but how I reacted to it. To him, it's clearly just another vehicle to understand me better. I've actually learned a fair bit about myself through these babble-induced interactions with my therapist.
He's not an advice giver though, sometimes infuriatingly so, but good lord, I have enough people telling me how to live my life. He'll help me to decide what I really want to do about something, but he would never tell me directly to stop or continue to do something (unless I decided to play in traffic etc, but I really wouldn't need a therapist to tell me that).
Actually, you know that I think about it, even though babble isn't therapy, it can have significant therapeutic application.
Seldom.
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