growlycat, thanks for the article link.

For me, misconnections occur in every relationship but they seem to be so much more magnified in the therapeutic one. I have often wondered why that is? A part of me, worries that if a "trained" professional can't help me, who can?

When ruptures have occurred in the past, I have felt panicked. Scared. Alone. Misunderstood. My experiences have been when I "try" to explain what I think it is I am feeling....I am wrong. I usually am the one to walk away. I don't know if I am "protecting" the person from me, or I am "protecting" me from the world?