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Originally Posted by _Mouse
I've been vile. therapy is a safe place for feelings. Doing it by text or email is a way of 'protecting' the therapist /other.
Unfortunately your T didn't reply. She missed an opportunity.
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Originally Posted by Asiablue
I'd never thought of it as a way of protecting her. There could be something in that, Mouse. Thanks.
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Sometimes referred to annihilation anxiety--very object relations-y. The child can't direct anger at the parent and either doesn't process it (ie. dissociates) or direct anger at herself because she is afraid of destroying the parent. (Symbolically, maybe this means the child's anger makes the parent go away/reject/abandon).
Great thread!