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Originally Posted by sjkero
how much you want to call him/her out of the blue during the week, for no reason, just to talk to them, almost as you would a friend?
how jealous you are that they have other clients, friends, and family who take up their time?
how upset it makes you to know they have a life outside of you?
how much you just want to be friends, and that your need for his/her affection is stressing you out even more than the issues you went into therapy for?
these are HUGE issues for me, and i don;t know how to bring them up in session. i feel i need to though. i'm so scared of the response to any/all of these. i'd love to know if anyone has ever told their t these things, and how the conversations unfolded. thanks in advance, PC peeps  |
all my therapists have told me I could call them anytime. So I never worried about whether I should call them or not out of the blue. I have never been jealous of my therapists private life. my physicians have all had their own private lives so why not my therapists and psychiatrists.. its just something I have always assumed about my therapists and have never worried about it and have never been jealous about. the only influences/thoughts I got surrounding the topic of my therapists was.. maybe some day I will be a therapist too. and with many yrs of schooling and work...that become a reality.
There was one case where I became "attached" to a therapist. When she saw my "attachment" she made it clear to me she and I would never be a couple, someday when I wasnt her client anymore we could become friends because NY does allow treatment providers of any kind to become friends after there is no business client/ treatment provider relationship.
considering Im still seeing that therapist our becoming friends though a possibility will have to wait.