Aw man, I'm bummed I forgot to read yesterday's notes and I missed the TOD. Fortunately, today's TOD is whatever I want, so I'll write about yesterday's TOD. Also, I checked everyone else's posts from yesterday and it appears NO ONE wanted to write about their therapy experiences, so I shall.
I WAS IN GROUP THERAPY! I swear I was. It was about 35 years ago and I've never been in any type of therapy since. I participated in this group my first year in college. It was not at all what I expected it to be and I was disappointed, but for some odd reason I kept going. I thought we were going to find problems we all have in common and discuss them together. But instead, it was more like AA meetings where one person speaks about their personal problems and the rest of the group just eavesdrops. What's the point of being in a group for that? - you may as well just have individual therapy. I once tried to get the therapist to change this format by saying at the beginning of the meeting, "We're all having roommate problems and you have to help all of us at once!" But he ignored me and continued on with his regular format. I never found any of it helpful, except for one piece of advice the therapist gave. I was living with a group of horrible roommates and the therapist asked, "What do you think they think of you?" and I said that I assumed they don't like me either. He said, "I want you to go back to your apartment and act like you believe they like you." So, I did that, and lo and behold they acted differently too and were much nicer. But it was the end of the school year, and I doubt that trick would have worked for very long.
