A Brief Aside
Therapist: Do you think it possible that as you emulate your full self*, you and your husband will get along better?
Me: No.
*yes, this is the way she speaks.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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"I always relate more to underdogs and losers. They're more interesting--and they're better in bed." Chrissie Hynde
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is never too late to become what you might have been." George Eliot
About Me
- Name: WryGirl
- Location: New England
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- The Plan: Part 3
- The Plan, Part 2
- Our Heroine Has A Plan.
- I Find These Hilarious and Inane.
- You Should See The Illusionist
- Day One.
- Call for Help 2
- Call for Help.
- HNT
- A Little Steadier for the Next Half Hour.
7 Comments:
Lol . . . sounds like money well-spent.
Oh, Wry, Wry, Wry . . .you need a night on the town, with dinner, drinks and dancing, girlfriend. You need to live, honey.
Girls night out? Anything like that? Mix in a nice boy or two . . .
XO
Thanks Jim. Does bookgroup count?
What does that even mean--"emulate your full self"? Maybe I'm just being Mr. Anal Grammar here (wouldn't be the first time), but "emulate" basically means to copy, so why would she advise you to pretend to be your full self, rather than just saying BEING your full self? Ugh, that's why I stopped going to therapy this year, I couldn't get past the bullshit and the notion that I was much smarter than he was.
I. . .I don't know.
Hi WG,
Therapists often divert any questions you ask with "Well, why do you think so?"
I think you should ask this therapist more direct questions:
"Why won't my husband listen to me?"
"Why won't my husband fuck me hard?"
Follow with "I need your professional opinion-- not just another bunch of endless FUCKING questions."
Sometimes the simplest questions lead to the most insightful answers. If she can't give you any meaningful response, fire her ass.
I had a great therapist. He helped me problem-solve through the same crisis you're facing. At the end of my therapy, I had gotten to the point where I had developed novel therapy techniques and he was giving me an extra hour for free just to educate him.
THAT'S a good therapist-- one that knows what he knows-- and what he doesn't.
Love,
Chuck
Yes, book group counts . . . but you've got to read good stuff, and have interesting conversations about them.
And you need more than book group . . .
XO
Redirection is a typical technique, but jargony bullshit is a warning sign. Does this person actualy do you any good? If the answer is not a resounding yes, dump this turd and get someone who knows what they are doing, or at least can use language. Emulate my rosey red rectum.
H
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