Thursday, February 24, 2011

Atmosphere

I will admit to sleeping badly last night. My subconscious was not settled about the going to the psychologist today.

Errr....shiver...that's sort of sounds like a dirty word. Psychologist.

Add in the hectic morning of two clients, one of whom was two chatty for her own good and the sanity of my schedule. I was a little stressed flying into the garage with 30 mins to my appointment.

Then, I printed out the pre-forms....oh dear...12 pages! Ekkkkkk!!! Guess I should have done that homework before hand.

Note: Discuss excellence in procrastination with doctor.

I got to the office with 10 minutes to spare. Sat in the parking lot trying to fill in ask many blanks as possible. Realized after almost 8 yrs of marriage I still don't know Rich's SSN or the address of his work.

I should take a picture of the building. All salmon pink brick reminiscent of a bank with weird Greek columns and French Doors. The building itself seems conflicted in its identity, how ironic!

The waiting room has big overstuffed leather couches which is a first for me in a doctors office. The walls were sort of painted a light blue grey and depending I guess that could be soothing or gloomy.

Then I spotted it. Or rather heard it. From the floor, right by the check in window there was a ancient looking cylinder. It was emitting white noise into the room, rather loudly in fact. Too loud to make it soothing to me. All I could think about was the machine in Trents' room that emits a like noise to simulate the 'womb' atmosphere.

Tricky, Tricky these doctors are trying to regress you right from the start! Or they have a sick sense of humor about these things after so many years treating patients.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

No, not trying to regress anyone. Just trying to protect your privacy. Just think, while you're in there spilling your guts, no one else will be able to hear it and think "man, that woman really is crazy!"

JRose said...

They had one of those white noise things in the waiting room of our therapists office too. Of course, they also had the Oldest and Most Boring Magazines Ever.

AWillman said...

Actually there were very few magazines, maybe 3. I mean there could be a patient out there desperate enough to try death by paper cut.(jk)