Posted by alexandra_k on September 7, 2013, at 21:06:45
In reply to Re: Ideal Patient » Moishe Pipik, posted by Dinah on September 7, 2013, at 10:25:19
I remember working with one of the counselors at Uni. She was nice enough, and was trying to help me, but I didn't attach to her, particularly. I... Just didn't. I don't think I was her ideal patient at all. I mean, I think she tried... But I would miss sessions because I forgot, and stuff like that. I didn't think of her much outside sessions. I... Couldn't engage enough to get any work done, I suppose. I've had that with a few therapists. Horrible feeling. Why can't I attach to them?
I think it has something to do with my sensing that they would find me... The real me... Overwhelming. So... I don't go there.
I suppose I might have been nearly ideal for my last therapist. Except it would have been better (for everyone) if I was richer haha. I did try... I couldn't engage in quite the way he wanted... But I did try and do some work. Maybe he would have preferred me more helpless and more attached and a little less defensive? He might have thought he did, but he couldn't have handled me that way. I wasn't good enough at putting things away at the end of session. I guess that would have been more ideal. If I was better at that. More productive outside session. More productive inside session. More compartmentalized ahaha.
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