Hi everyone! I am 15 years old and I am very confused about my relationship with my therapist. The other day, I left school to go to my therapy appointment, and she had forgotten to come. It wasn't my regular time, and apparently she was having a hard week but I waited and texted and called for 45 minutes. I ended up feeling so abandoned and started balling and ran to the bathroom to cut. It was then that she finally responded to my text messages with "Oh no! I am so sorry I totally forgot, where are you now?" to which I responded "I am in the bathroom having terrible urges and I don't know what to do." She told me to wait in her waiting room and she cancelled her next appointment for me. I have always seriously idolized my therapist and after her doing this I feel so betrayed by her and don't know how to go back to how I felt about her before. I was wondering 1) if any of you have ever experienced this kind of situation, how did you deal with it? 2) Do you think it would be a good idea to send her an email explaining my feelings on the situation and all of this that I am telling you all? Or would that be horrible because I don't want to hurt her again (she was really hurt when she found out I was having urges because of her)? 3) How do you think I can get over this feeling of abandonment?
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