Attachment and perhaps not about T but someone else significant to you? I was reading about this last night.

We think it is our T's because they are providing the proper environment for us to trust them. Care when we need it, stern when we need it, validation of our feelings. Perhaps the perfert parent scenario.

In any case, our feelings our real to us and yours are valid. I'm glad that you think of your T that way.

I don't know much about IBS but my mom has it and she says it is stress/anxiety related because that is when she has a flare up.