OT: strange things you have wondered about your therapist

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 3/5/12 10:01 am - OH

After the recent discussion of underwear, I received an email today from an ex-client, and something she mentioned (in context it was not nearly as odd a revelation as it sounds without the proper context!) started the engine in my little train of thought... so I am curious...

She mentioned that, when we were working together, she wondered what kind of clothing I wore to bed. It was apparently a stray thought one day and then for some reason she continued to wonder about it (but knew it wasn't appropriate to ask). When I read that, I remembered wondering what the living room and bedroom of a therapist I was seeing about 8 years ago looked like... what the furniture style was, the color/pattern/material of the bed linens, the type and color of carpet, etc. (Yet I never had the same thought about the therapist I saw after that (and saw for 7 years!).)

Anyway, I'm just curious... What kinds of odd things have other people wondered about their therapists?

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

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happy_baker
on 3/5/12 10:22 am

RNY on 02/15/12

I always wonder how my therapist disciplines her children when she loses her temper.

I also wonder quite often how long she had to practice to get a good poker face when her clients say really outrageous things and her first impulse is to burst out laughing or be completely horrified.

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Zeigled
on 3/5/12 10:32 am - Parkton, MD

RNY on 07/20/11

For me it was always about me...I didn't wonder too much about my therapists except to wonder if they wondered if I was really weird. On one hand I kind of wanted to be weirder than others but on the other I didn't want to be too out there. I must be kind of selfish.

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Paul C.
on 3/5/12 10:35 am - Cumming, GA

RNY on 07/16/10

Spit or swallow.
Curtain match the carpet.

Shall I continue.

Lol

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Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 3/5/12 10:38 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

I hope you're happy... I about choked to death on the water I was swallowing when I read your reply!!!

Hysterical!

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Paul C.
on 3/5/12 12:09 pm - Cumming, GA

RNY on 07/16/10

I guess you don't spit...

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Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 3/5/12 12:14 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

OMG, I had a very similar thought when I typed that out!!!!! I should have KNOWN it would occur to you, too!

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Paul C.
on 3/5/12 10:42 pm - Cumming, GA

RNY on 07/16/10

Lora,

You should know by now that I don't miss much. It actually took me longer to decide if I should post the reply than it did to think of it or type it.

Believe it or not at one point in my life I was a psychology major. Walked away from it with 1 year until graduation.

Paul C.
First 5K 9/27/20 46:32 - 11 weeks post op (PR 28:55 8/15/11)
First 10K 7/04/2011 1:03 First 15K 9/18/2011 1:37
First Half Marathon 10/02/2011 2:27:44 (PR 2:24:35)
First Half Ironman 9/30/12 7:32:04