It's plain to see that there is an inherent imbalance in therapy. You tell your T all about you and know nothing about him/her. But the truly empty feeling that I now feel when considering the dynamic of the T relationship is new as I think about it over months since beginning with this T.
Now I still make plenty of progress each session and if it's at all hindered by my sadness about therapist-client dynamic, it is effective enough for me to not realize a drop-off. But I've felt so upset in between sessions about never being able to know my therapist, and it has started to come up in my mind during actual sessions. I keep it to myself because I don't want to seem as if I'm trying to guilt trip and I just don't know if anything positive can come from telling her about how I'm questioning if I can trust, if I'm cared about, and if the benefits outweigh the terrible gut wrenching feeling of opening up to someone who can only care so much. Any input my friends?
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