Hi Simplyme & welcome!

Just Me (as usual) is right. Miscommunications in therapy can be very detrimental and should be cleared up as soon as possible. I have learned this the hard way. My T made a comment once and I thought she was teasing me. When someone teases me about something I feel is significant I immediately think that maybe I am making too much of it and resolve to not mention it again. I hope you can see where this is going. I held off bringing it up again and felt very confused about how much I could trust her. Knowing that I am striving towards being able to tell her anything I realized how counter-productive this was so I finally asked her about her comment. It wasn't easy but I did learn that she had meant to communicate something completely different. She was trying to express that she understood how deeply I was feeling about it. I am not sure how I heard it as her teasing me but since I know how sensitive I can be about being teased it is possible that I'm simply programmed to expect it. Part of therapy for me is to reprogram myself which won't happen if rely on my old ways of interpreting things.