His burst of anger and then blaming it on me. Not apologizing for it.
Raising his voice with condemnation to it when telling me about myself (one of his methods is analysis).
Using pessimism such as “you need friends or else you’ll be alone”.
Or “You need to think of others, you can’t be wrapped up in your own feelings” - when I just told him I care first and foremost about my own feelings. Again with a condemning tone.
Telling me I attack others with anger. When I asked him how does he know, his response is “you’re attacking me”, making me feel bad about releasing anger rather than have my right to express it. Also, it was unhealthy “mind-reading”, and he’d excuse such remarks with “If you behave such way with me then you probably behave such way with others”.
He was very angry with me when I came in to see him. I think he knew it was my buttons. He used it to keep me in. His gaslightings did not work, but he left me vulnerable since he is not willing to make a conclusive meeting.
He’d also leave me with “doorknob therapy conditions”, except he would never “close the can”. I even told him more than once that I want to close it to which he said “So you want us to work on how to close the meeting.” Guess what? At that moment, he did not close it. He wanted me to think of the things, instead of closing it so I won’t be in such a vulnerable state outside.
There could be more.
Please help me deal with this.
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