My last therapy has finally ended. Failed dreams, failed hopes, lots of money into therapists' pockets. Trusting somebody who ultimately realized and admitted that she had "insufficient" emotional resources, because of some personal and other business stresses, to continue with my case, after 6 years. She is, ultimately in my case, unable to accept and deal with my negativity and negative transference.

Wow. For this I have been in therapy for 50 years, on and off? So that I could experience all my hurt and rage and have the therapist say "OK, that's yours, I can't tolerate you any more."

HA! Sure would have been nice if somebody had clued me in on the front end!!

Going back to the idea of therapy as a relationship, she justified what has happened by saying that although it's usually applied to dating relationships, the notion of "timing is everything" can apply to the therapy relationship as well.

This wasn't me interpreting therapy as a "friendship". I thought it was a business relationship. When you go to any other business for a service and they understand it's important to follow through with what they start -- even though you may not have a contract, if they can't follow through, then they have failed it seems to me. They may certainly not have intended to fail, but still they failed. Not just "timing is everything". A better saying might be, "It's not personal, it's just business." Yeah. So how is that supposed to help us in our real personal relationships, if we want to try to have them?

Either way, when your service provider won't/can't do the the work, then they can't. Personal relationships as a business? I really do think, after all this time, that the model has failed this customer. It's a scam and a cult and needs to be exposed.

It was this last therapists' idea, not mine. Once again I went to her for help with problems which she diagnosed as DDNOS and PDNOS. The idea of "therapy as a (practice) relationship" was her idea, not mine.