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Yup after a session that brings up heavy emotions I become very needy for extra attention from my T. I think it is because when emotionally hurt as a child I never received comfort and reassurance and since the attachment to T is like nothing I ever experience my inner child overwhelmingly needs to proverbially wants to crawl in his lap to be comforted.
This is what I find barbaric about therapy. It causes the above but you can't have that needed comfort from your T(who I feel is a symbolic parent). I am not sure how this is healing. It causes me more stress and my bulimia gets worse.
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.
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