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Originally Posted by Echos Myron
I can't speak for OP specifically, but for a lot of people this kind of situation reinforces a negative self-perception and can also touch on abandonment and other issues. I don't think it's as simple as one action is right and the other is wrong. Especially in the unique space of therapy, where the hour is usually completely about the client. That's one of the most healing things for many people in therapy, so to have that disrupted can be hurtful.
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Yeah, pretty much this. I think it was hurtful BECAUSE there was this expectation that the therapy hour is sort of sacrosanct. I don't get huffy when attention is taken away from me in other situations--really, I don't. I reacted to the interruption like I would have an interruption at the store, or accountant's office, or anywhere else--"Oh, that's fine. I'll wait." And is IS fine, in those situations.
But in this situation, suddenly, it wasn't okay. Because this wasn't the store or the accountants office. I'd been sort of--spoiled, I guess?--by the undivided attention I usually get there.