"Why Don't Therapists React With Shock, Surprise or Sadness" AKA ep. 55

Ask Kati Anything! episode 55 audience questions:

1/ Hey Kati, could you talk about why therapists sometimes don’t react with shock or surprise or sadness to things you might tell them like abuse, or they don’t give away any emotional clues about...

2/ Hi Kati, how is a therapist to react when a patient doesn't even trust them enough to tell them why they're here? Can such a patient even get therapy? Or would they be deemed untreatable???

3/ Hi Kati! How do you meet your need in comfort and reassurance, and why can one crave it? I have a strong feeling that I want someone to comfort me, tell me everything is going to be okay, validate my feelings, take care of my...

4/ What can we do when the thought of having to calm yourself is triggering? You talk so much about being able to soothe yourself but what if you associate being calm with having to be compliant and quiet...

5/ How do I come clean about secretly recording our sessions to my therapist? I started recording them because I couldn't remember a thing about our sessions due to intense social anxiety. Also, being gaslit by my parents for years, I constantly question my...

6/ Could you talk about the stigma around suicide and grieving deaths caused by suicide? I have recently lost 2 friends to suicide within the past few weeks, and I've noticed a lot of people aren't very understanding. They say things like, "How could anyone that young do something like...

7/ Hi Kati. I don't have anyone to share my feelings. No friends. No therapist. (I left my therapist because our conversation was way too shallow.) I don't wanna watch TV anymore in my 'excessive free time' I just want to have someone to talk to in a deeper way. I'm sick of just...

8/ Do you have any suggestions for someone who struggles with imposter syndrome? I have been at the same job for a long time and get nothing but positive feedback, yet I have this overwhelming fear I will be "found out" someday and they will realize I don't know what I...

9/ Hi Kati. My husband was sexually abused by a family friend multiple times as a young child and "doesn’t remember how long it went on" he only has talked about it twice over the 3 years we have been together. I am the only person who knows about this, I know it affects him to this day but...

10/ Can you talk more about setting boundaries within and outside of therapy? I have trouble setting boundaries and constantly feel like I'm going to overstep them if I’m not constantly worrying and super aware of everything I'm doing, saying, and thinking...

11/ Hey Kati! I recently came out of a psychotic episode, however, I miss my voices. Even though I know it wasn’t real and they were mean as hell for the most part it felt as though I had someone to talk to. I just want to know is it normal to miss the voices and what do I do about it???

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