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Originally Posted by bluebicycle
I've had dreams like that too when I'm afraid of missing my therapist appointment. 
I keep worrying about the appointment all night long just before bed, and then I dream about it because I'm afraid I won't hear my alarm and that I'll wake up too late.
I actually told my therapist about that dream once. She said "it happens" because to anxiety, and she told me to call her if I ever had anxiety like that and if it bothers me.  She told me she is more than willing to help me with that anxiety. So that's something you could think about. |
Thanks for your response. I did mention the dream to him briefly today, but just offhandedly. And I jokingly apologized for missing the dream appointment. He asked if I'd given 24 hours notice, and I said, "Nope, I just totally forgot about it!"
I tend to have anxiety about missing appointments with him. I know it's partly due to attachment/paternal transference, but also because he had to cancel at the last minute frequently back when his wife was sick. Sadly, she passed away 6 months ago, but I still worry about him canceling--likely abandonment fears, even though I trust that we'd schedule again (especially since we have a regular time now, which we didn't have at one point). Once he even told us as we walked into session that he could only stay 20 minutes (he didn't charge us). Plus I keep thinking if our daughter is sick, we'd have to cancel (we missed that by one day a couple months ago, when school called for us to pick her up).
I don't generally have the same worries with my individual T, though. She very rarely cancels. I do worry a bit about missing an appointment, because once, I had the time written down wrong. She called when I wasn't there, said I could still come in because she didn't have anyone right after me, so I raced over there and still got pretty much a full session. So now I double-check times with her sometimes. But I don't worry about *her* canceling (watch, now she'll cancel Wednesday's appointment!)
Part of me feels like I should bring up the cancellation fears with MC, but I don't want to bring up stuff about his wife, so maybe I'll just talk about it with T instead.
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