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Apr 23, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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When a therapist just lets you ramble on and on and then you realize you have been talking for awhile and they have just been stareing at you and not interrupting?
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Apr 24, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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a therapist takes notes while the client just talks about whatever comes to mind. Signmund freud called it psychoanaylsis. young adults today call it "venting", ranting. |
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Apr 24, 2024 at 02:07 PM
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My therapist will do this sometimes, too. It can be helpful when I just need to get stuff out. Do you find it helps you? Or is it more awkward because they're not saying anything?
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Apr 24, 2024 at 02:25 PM
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I find it kind of confusing. Because it can go on for a couple of minutes and then I realize she hasn't said anything and I feel a bit dumb.
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Apr 24, 2024 at 04:37 PM
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it seems like something for you to talk about then. Does she literally not say anything, like, "oh" or "hm" or "ugh"? Or nodding or something? As then I definitely understand how it would feel awkward. Maybe if you told her you'd rather her say something, it could help. |
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Apr 25, 2024 at 02:08 AM
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I had that - active listening - for 20yrs...hard to deal with in the begining.. I discovered she was really listening... I finished theraoy 4yrs ago and realised no one will ever listen to me like that again. In civvy street no ones got that ability to really listen... What a gift those sessions were
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