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Old Jun 10, 2009, 07:04 AM
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Fallenangel are you a young person? I think that young people like myself are more at risk and therefore develop stronger attachments but hey i could be wrong.

I am currently going through a forced termination with a therapist that i am very very attached to. I think its unfair that the therapeutic relationship is set up to make the client reliant, attached and dependent on the therapist. All the emotions im going through in this termination are very unfair and horrible and i am very stressed out about it. The emotions are crazy out of control and feel very childlike.
I have a strong maternal transference thing going on with this therapist and I dont always understand the attachment feelings.

It is unfair for a therapist to create such strong attachment when the therapist cant be anything but a therapist to the client.

My therapist said we could meet for coffee when i finished therapy with her but we could never be friends. so now i am very confused about what coffee is if its not a friend thing to do and im confused about why the attachment makes me want to hang out and be very close to someone who is my mothers age.

All this is very hard to deal with but i'm hoping that someone can make sense of it for me