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Originally Posted by Out_of_denial
Thanks everybody. I agree with all of you. She did make a HUGE mistake. I do want to work through it, but I don't know if her ego will allow her to accept that it was nothing more then a simple mistake.
I am not the squeaky wheel and I give her a lot of slack. I don't think she realized just how much I hung on her every word. I don't think she realized just how devastating this would be to me. I didn't even realize it.
I did write back with how it all affected me and that the only thing that could fix it was a long and honest talk about why this happened.
I cashier at Toys r us for christmas and I'll tell you, I didn't have a ggod night there last night. I just didnt give a rats *** about people and their crappy toys.
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Okay, this time of year, access to mental health services should be freely offered to all Toys R Us employees - if not offered on site at the stores. I know servicemen and women get extra pay for being in war zones. I would certainly hope that the company extends the same to its employess during the holidays. Crappy toys indeed!
So, in my therapeutic world, if I had decided to continue on with this therapist, there would have to be some significant and consistent changes that results from this episode.
I think now is a wonderful time for you to assert exactly what you want, not in a punitive way of course, but to let her know what, as a client, you will and will not accept.
Having a therapist be where they say they will be, when they say they will be there, is the absolute minimum standard of acceptable behaviour by a professional. Frankly, that is your right, not only as a client, but as a human being.
However, I think this goes beyond that. The 10 day absence? Wow!
This may, in fact, prove to be a good thing for you because you get to consolidate your desires (and rights!) and express them to another. SHe should be responsive and attentive.
You are right, this, IMO, is far from a simple mistake.