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Originally Posted by IndestructibleGirl
I'm the opposite. I find it uplifting to think of my T having a good full schedule of other clients - I suspect because that creates a kind of diluting effect, and therefore less pressure. And some of them are bound to be as irritating as I can be  If I fantasized I was the only client I'd panic a bit. That being said, I would not wish to discuss therapy with the ex-lover who recommended my T to me. That would be weird.
I'm in touch with my T a lot via calls and texts and emails. It is really helping me and I think I'm growing emotionally with her nurturing-ness, but I get little stabs of guilt and doubt. A way I can justify this in my own head sometimes is to think 'this must be normal for how she works, I bet all her other clients are doing the same (or at least half of them, anyway) so it doesn't mean I'm abnormally needy to do this'. |
I am this way. The other clients take the pressure off. I was my last T's only client and it did not end well for me. I was shocked when my last T confessed that I was the lone client.
To me, it's like wanting to eat at the crowded restaurant. More patrons means that the restaurant is popular for a reason -- the food is good.
Also, the T I have now has a diversity of experiences. Maybe some other client's solution to a problem will be useful to me in some way. I think I benefit from my "therapy siblings." My therapy siblings are the clients whom I will never meet, but I imagine we all love my T.
And hopefully, more than 50 percent of them are more annoying than me.
