More strange events
Am I crazy? After being browbeaten by a manager in Hobee's Restaurant, and being lectured and patronized by another waitress in Crescent City, I now feel violated by my physical therapist. This morning when she was pulling my shoulder I tensed up and said "oww!" because it hurt -- and she started arguing with me! She told me to relax and wouldn't stop, even though I was tensing up and saying "ow, don't!" That can't be right. Am I wrong about this? It's my body! But she was arguing with me and insinuating that I was "just being difficult."
I don't understand why stuff like this happens to me. My new age friends would say that something I'm doing is "calling" these experiences to me. WTF? I'm in physical therapy because I'm in pain. That fact makes me vulnerable. I'm also paying, and it's my body. Isn't the whole point is to reduce pain, and not add to it psychically and emotionally by arguing with me when I communicate a limit or express discomfort?
All you "you create your own reality" people out there -- I don't think there's anything about my actions, intentions or beliefs that *caused* this to happen. It could be resulting from our collective stress right now though....
The question is what to do. I did not feel it appropriate to blast, have a meltdown, or create a scene. But I *was* violated in a way. My body is not hers to push and pull without my consent.
In ANY kind of body therapy -- medical, chiropractic, physical therapy or massage -- it's important to feel safe, to feel respected. Our bodies are not machines, they house our being. My heart and soul are inside. We are not allowed to violate each other's limits and boundaries, especially in a therapeutic setting. Period as far as I'm concerned.
So I'm left with this energy, this yukky anger and sense of mistreatment. What to do?
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