This hasn't happened to me, but I know that when I'm distracted, I call my son by my husband's name, my husband by my brother's name, etc. And don't get me started on how terrible I am at remembering names in general. I know it feels awful to be called by another person's name, but it probably was an unconscious slip of the tongue and not a case of mistaken identity.

So sorry, though. Big hugs.

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I'm horrible at names... remembering them and such. I think it was totally unconscious of my T... she apologized immediately before I even noticed. It was an empathetic response to something I was saying and she gave me an arm squeeze and let me know she was there w/ me the rest of the session.

It wasn't until after it's sort of eating at me... my primary T is on vacation and I see T2 about once every 3 weeks now. So with my 'rock' on vacation I think I'm more susceptible to feeling abandoned or something??

Our names are not too far off... it was her previous client (who she said 'Bye, name' to in the waiting room before giving me a big hug... I was really connected with her yesterday. Our names are similar enough... like Rachel and Richelle for example.

It sucks though... bleu.

Personally, I would have dissolved and cried myself to sleep and never gone back. I am really sensitive and would have questioned the entire relationship. He would have to do some serious damage control. He has said things to me prior that really insulted me. It took me a while and some courage, but I was able to "confront" him about how much he hurt me (which was huge for me to be able to do that). He apologized profusely and I could see on his face he was genuinely deeply sorry. He said he would never do anything to hurt me and kept repeating that and explained he is human and makes mistakes. He always owns his mistakes.

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I'm very sensitive too Sometimes my brain will sort of suck things in and put them in a void... then feed them to me slowly when I can handle it. If I did get triggered right away it's like... it was immediately captured and put somewhere else and I just continue on. Sort of like how I dealt with trauma growing up, for example my dog was given away as punishment, I didn't find out until the evening and immediately after I had to play in a sports game, and study for an exam. So it was like... it registered but I couldn't process it, I had to keep moving.

It's actually only now in therapy that those things have "time" to be dealt with... so... I think it's the same IN therapy right now... while I'm working on one thing... if something painful comes up it gets in line. I used to never be able to tell my Ts if there was something hard going on in my life at the moment. I could talk about the past... but if something bad was happening before or after therapy it just wasn't there.

I haven't gotten to the emotional part of this (if there will be any) I'm just at the... I can hear it knocking.

I'm glad that in the past when your T has said the wrong things you've been able to talk to him about it. It's so very healing to be heard and understood.

It's just... sad and frustrating