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Originally Posted by healed84
Should I call tomorrow and ask him to fit me in somehere? Is this a good enough reason?
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I would. My therapist knows that regardless of how well I'm doing for a sustained period of time, if there is too big of a gap between our seeing each other, I'm at risk. About once a year or so, she goes out of the country, usually for about three weeks. There have been times we've had to go two weeks, and I can usually handle that. But three weeks can be a problem. I'm fine as long as nothing in my life starts crashing. But if something happens during that time - I can end up upside-down. Last time my therapist went out of the country, there was a little over four weeks between appointments. About a week in, life-situations became unmanageable for me. I couldn't pull myself out. By the time we saw each other again, I wasn't in very good shape. And I think in part, it was more problematic than usual because I'd been doing so well for so long, that she thought I was in too good of shape to have any trouble. In the past, when I was not as good at sustaining myself, she always made sure I had a way to contact her - usually by email. And she would check her email every couple of days, so if I did write her I'd get some kind of response that would help me hold it together. But this last time, I did email her (like a one sentence thing, but it indicated I wasn't in very good shape). But she didn't check her email. So I sunk lower and lower. I needed to "touch" her to regain my stability - and she symbolically "wasn't there."
So... if I were you I'd ask to be fitted in. Call it "crisis prevention"