Dear Client

Bring me more pie!

Honestly, i have no idea. He is like the Energizer Bunny, and i am like idk a dead battery? We are so different. Except that he accommodates himself to me. So really, idk.

Dear Sandbox,

Why did you disappear? Things were going so well! I miss having you around to listen to my problems. I need to tell you more about my dating life and how much trouble I have with my officemates. I'm vaguely offended that you ghosted on me. Good luck with whatever your problems were.

dx: ptsd, gad, mdd, panic attacks
rx: prozac, clonidine prn

Clawing my way out of depression.

Dear Tsunami,
I wish you didn't have to be in so much pain. I realize how much you are suffering and wish I could take it all away. We are a team (something he really said).

(Mine was mostly stuff he actually said. I exaggerated the dbt part but he really does loooove it more than I do. The only thing he did not say was wanting to invite me to thanksgiving. Knowing him though I would think that the thought crossed his mind. He is a nurturing person)

Dear Luce,
I am so glad you have finally found someone who you think can help you. You matter to me but I am tired, and I can't be there for you as much as I would like to be. You can do this. You know how to do it. Just keep going. I will always be here cheering for you from far away.
Love ex-T

Dear Brazen,

I'm glad you are finally seeing through your negative transference and seeing how kind and caring I really am. I want to help you and I am trying really hard to understand. Please don't scare me again, ok?

T.

I really don't know what to do - I just make **** up and hope. Or I just stop listening altogether. You were right.

Dear ATAT,

You showed too much evidence of independent thought and a lack of sycophantism. I had to set it up so either you fell or you were pushed.

Smaug

I like this idea, please no judging my T and I have a very unique relationship.

Dear EM,

I wish I could tell you how much I do love you. I would love to have you over for family affairs and to go shopping with you, buying shoes and purses. Laughing and eating too many cookies and drinking too many Diet Cokes. I wish I could tell you that my husband thinks you're a wonderful person as well. There are so many things I wish I could say and/or do but I need to keep my professional mode on right now, because I love you and I want you to be healthy. I'm sad for the day that will eventually come when we are no longer therapist/client, it won't be as close or the same. It will be different but I promise we'll always be in each others lives from here forward. Especially since we sit in the same row at the ball games.

I love you, EM. Please don't ever doubt that. I'll always be here for you, but right now I have to stay strong and firm, for you. I only do this because I care deeply and am emotionally invested in you. I don't look forward to your sessions because you are a paycheck - I look forward to them because it's you. I have gotten to know you and I wish all those people that ruined your outlook on yourself would burn in hell, and that time will come so right now my job is to get your better so you can smile and laugh more and enjoy life the way it's meant to be.

Love,

T

The dbt stuff was freakin hilarious! He kinda sounded like my t. Maybe they channel the sock monkey!

I'm pretty squishy liberal and all, but the essential oils, Tibetan singing bowls and mindfulness love even make me roll my eyes sometimes!!!

"I suppose basking sharks probably are pretty big, Argo. How big? I don't know. Maybe ten meters. A meter is about 3 and a half feet. Uh-huh. No problem. Okay. We'll see you on the seventh."

Dear ATAT,

Please stop comparing your emotional landscape to World War I battles I know nothing about.

And I realize I don't know "Hamlet" or Greek mythology as well as you do, but you don't really need to correct my every mistake, do you? Pedant.

No. 3

Dear Mona,
Why do you punish me and frustrate me? I hate it when you ignore me and shut me out. It feels cruel. You haven't done that in a while and last session I am so sorry I couldn't stop laughing. It wasn't at you but it was just what you were saying and the way you were describing your mother was like Mrs Brown.

https://youtu.be/nLfNQq4ff00 for those who don't know who Mrs brown is.

Dear brillskep,

Please stop asking me to take responsibility for stuff I did months or years ago. This therapy is all about you, not me. We are here to discuss your reactions, not what you think are my mistakes.

Sincerely,
your therapist

Dear Crispy,I wish you would come back and face this,it has been almost a year and 1/2 since you ran out.

"Yo Bos, good to see you, working with you is like money for ol rope. I mean maybe I am getting desensitised in my old age but you just make so much ****in sense... So what's up."

A direct quote from my psychiatrist

Annie,
I really wish you would get a reality check. You're not stupid or lazy, you're doing fine. It's not your fault you have bipolar disorder and I wish you would stop blaming yourself. You're stubborn as an *** and difficult to work with, but I have hope that you can get better.
--T2

Annie,
I haven't seen you since last semester when I moved, but I hope you are doing well. Don't forget the grounding techniques I taught you for when you dissociate. You are going to be okay.
--T1

(This was a really good exercise for me -- good thread idea! -- ALB)

Dear ATAT,

Shut up about my mistakes, already.

No. 3