(((((rainbow)))))
The feeling can be soooo strong! I do think that it can be like that all consuming all encompassing attachment of infancy (in some ways). Just think of how infants are with their mothers, that is their whole world.
Of course, I am also not saying that the only way to benefit from therapy is to have intense attachment either. I think each individual experiences it differently and that is what is so facinating about the whole thing.
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Originally Posted by rainbow8
I felt the same way when I left my sessions. Sometimes I had to call my T from the car when I was only 1 block away. I felt like she was a magnet, and I was in her gravitational field. It was SO strong! I don't quite understand it either.
There was a movie, probably Steven Spielberg but I'm blocking out on the title, where the people felt this compulsion to build this stuff with clay or dirt. They were running around kind of obsessed, and they all met at the place where the UFO or whatever it was appeared. I have images of that movie, weird as it seems, when I think about my compulsion to be with my T. I even told my T that I was attracted to her like a magnet. It's very powerful. I am a little resentful of my T calling it a "neurotic attachment" when maybe it was just "normal" attachment, at least in the first years of therapy
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Originally Posted by Bether91068
I would be uncomfortable with the word neurotic as well. I would use the word "intense". Intense is a good word. More positive.  |
I just want to second this. I felt sad reading that your T said this rainbow.
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Originally Posted by treehouse
I feel that with T. I've told him that I feel like there is a rope connecting my heart to his....I can feel it so strongly in session.
He's on vacation. I know he's far far away and I miss him  |
((((((treehouse))))))