empty cup drama

a therapists guide to overreacting

I was at a therapy conference once where someone stated that I had ‘colonized’ their table by putting an empty coffee cup on it.

This was a trained therapist with a full professorship.

They had all of their conference expenses covered.

I was there on my own, very thin dime.

They had the audacity to play victim.

A therapist is not a victim.

If they play this role, they have no business being a therapist.

(actually? an artist is not a victim, nor is a leader nor a teacher, beware of those who play that role)

No on was sitting anywhere near where I placed my cup.

And yet?

I think they expected me to apologize.

Is that what I was supposed to do?

Perhaps to them this was a ‘teachable moment’.

I guess god and jebus were busy and they had to step up and fill in.

They were gallingly oblivious to their own aggression.

Me? Less so.

Oppositional defiance shows up whenever I find some jackass pulling a power game.

I giggled.

As they stared at me with a smirking, outraged attempt at dominance, I giggled ag…