Peaches. Interactions with your mother sound so painful. Hope springs eternal, and perhaps you are hoping each visit she will be different and more caring. It just sounds like it isn't going to happen. You know how you are stopping emailing your T (to prevent your hurt)? In similar vein, maybe you should just stop seeing your mother? I'm not trying to encourage breaking up your family, but I don't know, peaches, the times your parents visit just sound so grim, so depressing. Who needs that?--sorry if that sounds callous. Have you ever talked with your T about your current relations with your mother and father? What you can do in the present to deal with them and your interactions with them? Have you ever said directly to your mother that you feel ignored by her and your very important life concerns minimized by her lack of talk about them? When things are so awful in relationships, what have we got to lose by telling the truth? Maybe, just maybe (although it really doesn't sound like it), there has been a misunderstanding and if your parents knew from you directly, in plain language, how you felt, things might change? "Mom, every time you visit you talk only about your own activities and life. I feel whenever I bring up anything about myself or my troubles, such as my depression, you ignore it. I'm tired of that. Why are you so unconcerned with me? If you don't want to have more of a reciprocal relationship with me, your daughter, then maybe we should take a break from these visits." That's just me throwing out some words, but you know what I mean? I would be interested to hear what strategies you and your T have discussed to handle the present day, hurtful relationship with your parents. Their visits just sound awful.