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Originally Posted by Hopelessly Hopeful
I agree. I do feel bitter that she allowed this because in the end, it is their responsibility to do everything possible to avoid unhealthy attachment and codependency.
I'm not sure if you're asking me if she has involved me with her personal issues or if that was a rhetorical question? Like maybe she is doing this to fill her own void?
She's been helping me through major crisis all year long. There has been so much help and so much of her time that was not paid for.
And now I'm not going to have insurance until next month and she offered to see me no charge until then. (And I go twice a week. She even has to stay way later than she would like to accommodate my work schedule)
So it does help to think in the context of "you can't buy friendship" but at the same time all of the boundary crossing really hasn't been paid for. She has even went out to eat with me after a session and paid for me.
This situation is super painful and tricky!
Thanks for the support.
-Hope
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No, I did, ask if she was including you, in her personal stuff. To point out, the dependency, without the reciprocation.
I am confused, about therapists, that take on so much of their patients/clients personal lives. It seems like a 'savior' effect. Something, T's really need to have resolved, before entering the field, imo. It blurs the lines, in ways, because it's not helping, in the long run. Your being aware of this dependency and trying to resolve it, is therapeutic, but would that healing work, be better off with a different T?