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I'm currently writing a new part for the Tom Gets Therapy series. This time it focuses solely on Tord's perspective, and I'm facing a problem.
See, when I first wrote TGT, I had the intent of just making it a one and done fic. So Tom's mannerisms in therapy were ones I frequently showed when I was in therapy with my better therapist. The scratching into the arm chair had been something that I did, the more erratic talking and the need for a break. All of that was how I was in therapy when I had a good therapist.
So writing Tord's therapy, I want to portray how drastically different his experience is with Tom's. Tom is comfortable in the office and with his therapist. Tord is not, he hates the office and while he can appreciate his psychotherapist's more blunt nature, she can be very pushy about the topics they'll be talking about. She is the one that is forcing him to talk about his old friends and he is uncomfortable the whole way through.
Naturally I dive into my own past experiences and use them like I did for Tom's situation right? Welllll I may have gone too deep. I went through several family therapists thanks to the divorce and custody battle with my mom and dad, so bad experience on top of bad experience... these therapists were chosen by my dad and anything I told them would be told to my father and then used against me, it built up so much mistrust and resentment when I should have just been given mental health care... so needless to say, this is going to take me a while and I think I need to go cry. This sucks, I thought I was over this shit.