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Old Feb 07, 2014, 06:52 PM
Gabbage Gabbage is offline
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Please can I have some perspectives on this

To summarise I’ve been in weekly psychodynamic therapy for 5 months. Up until this point I’d never considered it needed and never accessed any support before.

I entered therapy after being diagnosed with a life changing health condition. The bottom line was while I was still able to go through the motions and function at work etc I was in a really bad way and not coping. A normally calm and rational person I was feeling out of control and desperately trying to understand and regulate my emotions. I’ve never felt such intense fear in my life or so lost. I told the therapist this and said I was looking for emotional support.

5 months later I don’t really think he has given me this. He is very ethical and professional but somewhat unresponsive. Robotic mostly. After much personal reading I actually think I was experiencing PTSD. I’m calmer in myself now (time is a great healer) but cant help feel angry that he didn’t step in and try to explain why I may have been feeling that way or give some reassurance that my intense grief would not last forever. Instead he has seemed to focus on the therapist relationship and my ‘attachment issues’ He has made a couple of sweeping statements such as ‘ I need to make him a significant figure in my life’ and that I ‘don’t know it yet but unconsciously “I worry that he will abandon me’ This gets my back up and I feel like we are working towards two different things. I do have a dismissive attachment style and exploring this has helped me understand my reaction to my diagnosis better and it is something I want to work on yet there is a much bigger issue going on for me!

I’ve told him all this. He says I’m dismissive and I’m projecting onto him. I say I’m being honest. I’m not sure if his non responsive style is facilitating the right environment for me to open up ( I need to drop my guard apparently). When I’ve said I don’t think we are compatible he says it’s the work and this is what we need to focus on. I’ve no doubt I’m bringing a load of baggage into the room but my focus is on me and not the therapist!

Do I quit this therapist or stick it out?
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