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Originally Posted by labelledame86
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.
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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.