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Originally Posted by ThisWayOut
I think many T's balk at therapy thorugh email, since a lot can be misconstrued. At least she responded. I know with T's that allowed email, the more emotionally charged emails I sent got less of a response than the "safer" ones. There's more potential for misinterpretation when our emotions are highly activated...
Would a phone call be appropriate for support? Or perhaps an extra session or two?
Also, trust can be slippry and elusive sometimes (even if it was there before). I panic around trusting a T with new and "scary" information, even when I had built up trust around other things previously. For me, it seems to need building with each new disclosure (mine also tend to start pretty tame and lead up for the more shammeful stuff).
I hope you can talk to T about all this, and maybe get some reassurance that she is still there and still trustworthy.  |
Thaaanks TWO
<3 (hehe, your name abbreviated is TWO!)
I'm feeling a little better but not good still. Not aggressive anymore, just kind of empty. I hate asking for calls, don't know why, it feels like I'm imposing so much... hrmmm... I don't want to feel needy, you know? I guess because I'm afraid of becoming the client that she just gets through an hour with, rather than the client she wants to see and it doesn't feel like work to talk to. I feel so needy for her caring and love, I guess I'm afraid to be less liked.
But you made a good point about emotionally charged emails... like duh, why didn't I think of that?? It just makes so much sense, I mean after you pointed it out of course.
And I get you about trust. That's the way I feel too. I still don't tell my T nearly as much as I would tell an open-minded stranger. I don't know why. It feels riskier somehow! Weird. Like we have this whole history at stake. Blah. Maybe just haven't even made peace with the whole format yet..