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Hello and welcome back to Oversharing.

I'm Jordana Abraham.

And I am Dr. Naomi Bernstein. How is it going? How are you? Doing well. Just, uh, happy to talk to you. What do you have going on? We're doing some stuff to get ready to take a little leave. Um, attorney leave, so that's exciting.

But I had a question for you.

I was thinking about this.

I'd go to therapy.

I usually go like every other week.

And I think we've kind of touched on this before.

But I do have this feeling like sometimes where I'm like, I get anxious about the appointment

because I'm like, I don't really have anything this week.

And I have to like come up with an issue that I don't really even feel like is like an issue to like delve into.

And then I feel like maybe I'm wasting like time and money.

But then like sometimes you go to those and like you had an interesting conversation that comes out. And sometimes you go and you're like, I don't know, I feel like I, you know, I leave the, I mean, I know you've been to therapy too, but I leave the appointment being like, did I really even care that much about the thing that we just work through? Yeah. Do you have that a lot? Does anyone like tell you that? I feel like I would never say that to the therapist because it feels weird.

To say like that was kind of pointless, basically. I guess either that was kind of pointless or just like everything's fine.

Obviously like there's times like when I would pay like four times the amount for the therapy appointment when I'm like in a crisis situation and you want to talk through something or you're having a really bad week or something.

Therapy surge pricing?

I mean, maybe. Could it be based? Could it be need based? Right. Or yeah. I don't know if you felt

this way going into a session or if you have patients who have like said that to you or at you as a therapist have ever been like, you don't really need to be here today.

No, I've never said that.

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