I left my therapist in January, then came back later this year. It's been a rough year, and I'm pretty isolated. I had hoped that the therapist could help me find someone that would be a better match, and in the interim, just be a human who could listen and empathize when I needed it.

At the last session, my internet had been out for a week - and still wasn't fixed. It was causing me a huge amount of stress (there's some weirdness involved, I actually work for the company that provides my internet - so I felt very constrained in what I could say/do, even though being without a service that I paid for, for that long, with no hope of it being fixed... felt really absurd and mind-boggling to me.)

At the time, I remember thinking... there weren't a lot of people that I could talk to about it. I felt really glad that I had a session coming up, and thought that it would be great to have someone to listen, bounce things off of, vent, and process.

When I started trying to explain what was going on, he stopped me. He basically said, "well, sometimes bad things happen and we can't do anything about it. You've examined your options, you're moving forward, there's not really anything to talk about."

I was shut down the rest of the session. I couldn't, in a million years, imagine ANY therapist jumping in to say, "that's not important enough to talk about". What the heck?

What got me, after the fact, is that there were a TON of things that this conversation could have led to. We could have talked about how embarrassed I am to be working for a company that treats its customers so badly, what I need to do to get out of there, how much of my existence revolves around the internet, and how the issue of not being able to speak up b/c of my fear of consequences occurs in other parts of my life (including therapy!). But, he shut all that down, because... not having internet isn't important enough to discuss.

I am sad. I know, I've said this a million times here... but I feel completely hopeless. And, it sucks, b/c obviously there was some part of me that was attached enough to go back.

I was supposed to go back this Friday (2 weeks after the last appointment) but I emailed this morning to cancel. Not reschedule, just cancel.

Not sure what I'm looking for, I guess I just wanted to share. Maybe see if anyone else can relate... has a T ever told you that something was not important enough to talk about? How did you deal with it? Did you keep seeing them? It seems *insane* to me for a therapist to say that, to shut things down like that. Thanks.