Posted by mair on May 22, 2001, at 21:56:09
In reply to Re: Meeting your therapist in the Real World, posted by Greg A. on May 22, 2001, at 13:50:26
> I used to regularly run into my former pdoc/therapist when I was still a patient of his. He used to go out of his way to greet me and generally would introduce me to whomever he was with, not as a patient of course. This was fine with me particularly since I knew him on a fairly low social level before i ever became his patient. I have been on the reverse side of this. I saw one pdoc for a brief time who looked right through me the few times we'd see each other outside the office. I had a therapist for a fairly brief time who apologized to me after an encounter in a grocery store when she did greet me, and did not ignore me. Her apology seemed strange and uncalled for. My current therapist knows I would prefer to be acknowledged in public. I live in a pretty self contained area and I have lived and worked here long enough that I don't feel I really need to explain to anyone how I might know someone else. It's not at all unlikely that I would have become acquainted with my therapist in a non professional setting. In the past, I felt very dismissed by the lack of acknowledgment and it just feels uncomfortable to me to ignore and be ignored by someone I know. Mair
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