I posted about this issue recently but it's escalated and I need some help. So, my T cancelled my appointment a week early as her daughter was having a baby. We made an appointment for the next day, but she cancelled that on the morning saying she was leaving on a plane. She told me she would contact me in a week or two.
It's been two weeks, I've been very anxious and struggling a lot worse than usual, really wishing I could talk to her. About an hour ago she texted me asking if I wanted an appointment in a week's time. So she will have been away for three weeks, and I wouldn't have seen her for 5 weeks. I feel angry, betrayed, I don't want to contact her and I'm seriously thinking about quitting therapy even though before this everything was perfect.
How should I reply? Whenever I feel abandoned I completely retreat and cut myself off from people. I haven't been in this kind of crisis mode in a long time, all due to her text. It was just a straightforward text about appointment days. Nothing asking how I was doing.
Am I unreasonable for expecting more than this given she's been away three weeks because her daughter had a baby, with no notice at all so I could at least have had an earlier appointment? I'm really struggling with these feelings and have no one to reach out to since I can't contact my T. She has never done anything to upset me before and my feelings aren't really rational I know, and I don't know how I'm going to reply to her message.
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