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Originally Posted by BudFox
What about the possibility that the compulsion to email is a direct result of what your therapist is doing or not doing, and therefore he has equivalent responsibility for it? I don't mean that he deliberately set out to create the situation, but that the role he is playing and the constraints of therapy have brought this out as an inevitability. Why does the client have to be the one to take responsibility and to bear the burden of coping and finding a solution?
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I'm not sure he wanted me to stop emailing. I did it because I was making myself crazy, and we talked about trying it for a week to see if it brought me relief or not. It hasn't, and I already messed up by emailing him this evening. I feel I have zero self control. He will likely not email me back, to see if I can try to go the rest of the week. I think he just wanted to help me be more comfortable, because I thought no contact might bring relief. But I'm even more of a head case now