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Old Feb 14, 2018, 09:53 PM
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Are you sure she's actually reading them? I've never been one for emailing my therapists. Personally, I try to exhibit behavior that would be acceptable and manageable even if all my T's clients did it. So that sort of eliminates most out of session contact. I don't feel like my daily thoughts are worth the time it would take to read them. I don't have the option as far as I know to email my current T between appointments, and I would really only feel ok calling her in special circumstances. Any time she spends on me outside of session isn't something I'm paying for, so it would feel like I wasn't properly valuing her time. I do write things and bring them to session, though.

I'm not sure how I would feel if I were a T and I had a client who emailed me a lot, but it probably wouldn't be positive. When I've had other people who emailed me excessively, I've wondered why they think I care about the minutiae of their existence. It would probably depend on whether I actually took the time to read each email. If they didn't require a response and weren't full of important revelations (which daily emails really can't be), I'd probably filter them into a special folder and skim them before session. Otherwise, I have a feeling I'd be one of those T's who either restricts the number of emails or charges for them. It would feel like a chore, reminiscent of completing assigned readings for class. If I had to read daily emails, I'd feel like I wasn't being respected as someone who has her own life. I certainly wouldn't be able to remember what was written if there was a constant high volume of messages. However, I am not your T (or anyone else's), and am generally a mean and impatient person, so...
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