The thing with me is, it's not like my parents were abusive or did anything particularly awful to me. But I had OCD and anxiety starting in childhood, then depression in my late teens. There were things that were symptoms of those that I got in trouble for (like questioning food safety--my biggest OCD thing was/is contamination), when what I needed was understanding (and help). When I was having big anxiety issues around 12 and had trouble being away from my mom, it really upset her at times. And my dad told me that he was upset that I upset her because he loved her more than me. :-( And some other stuff.

Basically, I felt like they didn't understand my issues and didn't really get me help for them (they did take me to a p-doc for a bit at one point and tried to force me to take a pill by holding me down, but at the time I was scared that I'd have an allergic reaction and the pill would make me sick or kill me). I even told them I was depressed as a teen and wanted help, but they seemed to brush it off. And it felt like they didn't accept the mental health issues and maybe loved me a bit less because of them.

I've seen T's in the past, like in my 20s and early 30s, but never really had transference for them. But I now have fairly intense paternal, plus some erotic/romantic transference for my marriage counselor (he's like 10 years older than me). I also have some maternal transference for my T, though not with the same intensity (she's my parents' age). Pretty sure it's a case where they represent the type of parents I wish I had as a kid. I think some of it was set off when MC was talking about how he helped his preteen daughter with her anxiety about going to school, and it was like, I wish my parents could have been like that with me... I also wonder if part of why I'm experiencing transference now is because I'm a mom to a 4-year-old daughter, who also has some anxiety. So I'm trying to be a good mom to her and not make the same mistakes.

On a kinda lighter note: At one point, after I'd addressed the transference stuff with each of them, my MC said he told my T (they're in the same office and friends) that they should tell their respective spouses that they're now a couple and have a child together--me :-)