Seeing my therapist today. What should I talk about?

[zanne]

No traumas this week and I don't feel like talking. Suggestions, please!

[Nickster]

1. Talk about the other voices in your head? Maybe do the whole session as your own

alter ego? That would give the therapist all kinds of trouble. LoL.

[zanne]

7. I'm not that interesting.

Depression and anxiety. Blah, blah, blah.

[Nickster]

13. Well sure, but why not make it more fun and interesting for the therapist?

I'm just kidding around with you, hope I don't sound like a butt head.

[miss_american_pie]

2. The Christmas present you always wanted

and never received? :shrug:

[patricia92243]

3. Talk about how much you hate to talk at therapy sessions when you don't feel like talking :)

[zanne]

6. Augh! It's torture! nt

[RetroLounge]

4. Quick, go do something crazy before you go.

then talk about that..

:hi:

RL

[zanne]

5. I like that!

Should I shave my cat?

[tigereye]

8. this is a first!

I've never seen anyone ask the public what they should talk about in their therapy session....

:rofl:

usually people talk about what comes to mind when they get there, or some goals.... or even the fact that there were no traumas..... ;)

[zanne]

9. I'm a paraphraser....

I don't exactly have the gift of gab. I tend to summarize everything. In other words, if I'd gone to Africa, England and Siberia this week and somebody asked me how my week went, I'd tell them "I did some traveling".

[tigereye]

20. ah, that probably would drive some therapists crazy

(I find this interesting only because I'm in the mental health field and I often wonder how patients perceive the whole process.)

I really think more people in therapy should actually tell their therapists what kind of interaction /process/conversation/homework, etc. is most useful to them (assuming that they can), it would probably benefit everyone all the way around.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. The War Of 1812?

That should be a twist.
The Professor

[hunter]

11. Show up naked.

That ought to get the discussion going.

[BarenakedLady]

12. Talk about me

I've had/will have to miss three weeks in a row. So could you deal with my issues for me? k?

1. sucky marriage
2. depression
3. anxiety

Thanks, I really appreciate it.

:rofl:

[Nickster]

14. Hey that gives me a great idea. How about we all give her our issues and then she

can present her issues, but they are actually a composite of all of our issues. Heck, the therapist could write a book about her, maybe even a movie! :-)

[Little Wing]

15. A refund

[edbermac]

16. If you don't feel like talking, you might be avoiding something.

I used to go and would talk about everything under the sun except what I should have been talking about because it was somewhat painful to discuss.

[Giant Robot]

21. I agree whole heartedly!

It may not necessarily be that you are avoiding something, but I have found that talking about not having anything to talk about, and being open about that, can be a wonderful process! This may be more of a matter of you becoming more aware of something you hadn't been paying attention to, may be all it is. I am more on the therapist side of things, but in my clinical supervision, I have found that when I sit with my supervisor and say I have nothing to talk about, it is usually when the most productive things happen. Being with clients, usually I just sit and wait until they say something if they think they have nothing to say. I am very patient. Either way good luck to you, and I hope something positive comes of this.

[Hugin]

17. Discuss how circumcision has affected your life...

With breastfeeding as a back up.

Should eat up an hour.

[catmandu57]

18. The Geico commercial?

and the negative attitude towards cavemen.

[Q3JR4]

19. I got it,

life the universe and everything.

[madinmaryland]

22. The War on Christmas?

:shrug:

[Ariana Celeste]

23. My counselor loved those days with me.

Because he got a better feel for who I was, making him better able to understand me- and every time I walked in thinking I had nothing to talk about- something would come up in conversation that I did end up needing to talk about.

[Quantess]

24. regress to a pre-teen, or

talk about something that made you upset as a kid. Who knows, it might tie into something you're going through today.