Posted by JohnX2 on March 9, 2002, at 22:23:22
In reply to Ummm ...fellahs?, posted by trouble on March 9, 2002, at 7:01:23
hi trouble,
Thanks for replying.
That's why its good for more than a few people
to be posting.The last time I walked into my pdocs I office
I looked on his wall. I was trying to see what
college he graduated from and what his undergraduate
degree was in. Have you ever checked this? Or would
you spend more time thinking about handstands? ;)I was joking about my doctor being naked
but not the other stuff.I wouldn't mind if he did 3 or 4 hand stands,
but more than that would be a distraction.Best,
John
> This is one of the things I like about in men. I mean, you're just going to tolerate this headstanding pdoc? At first I had warning bells going off but John, your good-natured, breezy laid-back reasonableness makes me kind of wish he was MY doctor. Reminds me of something R.D. Laing might have done, and he's a hero.
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> But. What about the whole role model thing, and the good judgement he demonstrates in order to gain your confidence? You can be crazy in here since there's at least one man in the room who can be counted on to know the appropriate from the inappropriate, who demonstrates a working knowledge of the proper time and place for everything, who doesn't distract w/his quirks or portend unpredictability who sees his patient as the star of the show and himself as the audience, not the other way around. I can't believe I'm saying this, but that's my idea of a trustworthy psychiatrist. Someone who takes pains not to create arousal in me, as I am exceedingly arousable to begin with, in both psyche and soma, and a sympathetic pdoc knows that's one reason I'm here, so the first thing he does is give me something bizarre to lay awake all night interpreting. No, it doesn't listen.
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> But what if this guy just thinks better upside down, maybe you got lucky and found yourself an old-school eccentric. I'm perplexed by this. All I can say Billy is I hope you two can talk about what's going on, I imagine anyone standing on his head as an open, playful, anything goes kind of person, and in my perfect world this pdoc took one look at you and saw instantly that this was just what you needed in a psychiatrist, and thus assumed the position. Everything he does w/you should be therapeutic, for you, but it's so dadgum hard to assess that. I thought professional decorum and uniformity was meant to signify we were on the right path.
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> Please keep posting about your experiences w/this man. I'm going to lie down now, I want to give this some thought.
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> trouble
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