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Old Sep 13, 2017, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by labelledame86 View Post
It's really hard to contain my emotions when I only see him once per week and it's hard to focus on other things that I need to be doing when I'm worried about waiting on a response. I tend to get somewhat obsessive over it. But, if he does respond it makes my day.
We are wired to have physical and emotional proximity to attachment figures. If this is prevented, emotional dysregulation is the result. I only realized after the fact that therapy was traumatizing me because of this. Also, seems to me feeling better when the therapist responds is a sign of emotional dependency. Also seems the game is that when a client starts getting too needy, the therapist will throw up "boundaries" and this usually causes the client terrible shame. I don't have any advice, but it helped me to recognize the situation as it was.
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