Thanks for your replies, especially for this insight:
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Some of the things that you are angry are totally legit. Feelings just ARE. But I imagine that the anger may be misdirected at T.....if your T tells you that she doesn't have time to respond to emails, and you get angry when she doesn't respond to them, then that's important information for you. You're angry that she set a boundary and it doesn't meet your need. Talking through it may be helpful.
Also, the fact that your T doesn't bring up stuff that you've mentioned in your emails, and that angers you....is also good information. You're angry at T not being directive instead of owning the responsibility of raising the topics that you want to talk about during session. If you need T to raise the topics, then it's up to you to tell your T what you need. If you're too fearful of that, then explore the fear. What are you fearful of? What gets stirred up for you?
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This is very true, there's probably a lot of things under the surface of my anger, most of all my wish for T to be there for me more than she's able to.
My T always says there's nothing I could say that she can't handle, and that I can talk about really anything in the therapy setting. Now all I need is, as usual, the courage to address this issue.
