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(JD) · Oct 23, 2011, 02:38 PM

My advice would be to wait if you can... but if all you're thinking about is how much you think you need to call/contact the Therapist, then go ahead and do so. No T wants their patient to suffer needlessly.

Sometimes just calling and leaving a message saying, You don't have to return the call, I just wanted to make contact...or something like that will ease your anxiety.

An email of the same might work.

If that doesn't work...and you find the next hour or two are miserable as well, then call or email again and say something like "that didn't work, can you please call me if you can?"

If you really are distraught, then for sure ask for T to call you back as soon as he/she can the first time. If it's inconvenient for the T, or they don't get the message right away, of course they will wait until they can give you undivided attention time. But then, if the T knows you don't abuse the contact "rule" he/she might call you right away anyway, hoping to ease your angst sooner than later. ( My pain T called me from a U of M football game once! Bless his heart.)

BTW I would give a brief description of what is causing your immediacy... or what overwhelming symptom you're having trouble with, to give the T a head's up?

Don't be surprised if you left a long description or email describing the whole situation that the T actually doesn't read or even pick the message up... T might just see you call/emailed with a request or paged T urgent...and called you direct. (So don't be disappointed if you wrote it out and have to give it to T all over again, I mean.)