Hey. Thats okay I have some valium. Don't take it very often (maybe once per month) but I take it when things feel really very very bad and I'm feeling really anxious and stuff... Just to help take the edge off it and help me get to sleep. Damned sickness made it hard for me to get to sleep. 'Cause I kept needing to blow my nose... Once I fell asleep I was okay but getting off to sleep was a nightmare. Took a little to help me get to sleep. Think that lack of sleep (and sickness induced misery) meant I was getting a little wound up...

Yeah you are right. It is up to the t to make sure they have appropriate supervision and that they set appropriate boundaries to PREVENT burnout. Some therapists are better or worse at doing this, however. I guess they are only human... Sometimes they give too much... Can't put stuff away... They are only human I guess.

I still keep contact with a t that terminated me. I went off at her for terminating me out of the blue and she emailed me: I was making myself sick worrying, worrying, worrying, because I didn't know what to do to help you.

And I thought: %#@&#!. %#@&#! %#@&#! %#@&#!.

I said: You don't need to do anything. Just listening to me... Just accepting me for who and what I am... That is what I need. And you have been doing that just fine.

She went off about how she couldn't do just nothing!

And I said that acceptance... Sometimes acceptance is the key to change. She trained as a DBT therapist but I don't know that she got the hang of the acceptance part. She didn't need to do anything. In fact... Her trying to change me just made me more resistent and if she had just expressed acceptance... Well I would have resisted that and pushed for change of course :-)

I'm contrary like that :-)

We keep in touch now. But yeah... She had trouble setting personal boundaries and confining her worrying time and trouble expressing that stuff to me. We could have talked about it instead of letting it build up to that point. Ditto for t's who terminated me 'cause they thought I didn't like them. I guess... t's are people too :-O