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Originally Posted by growlycat
I can relate LT. My recent emotional reactions are more related to childhood stuff than anything going on in the present. Attachment issues have been overwhelming for me lately so I follow your journey with interest too. Do your feelings if neediness flare up when you are actually getting your needs met? At least for me, I seem to go a long time without attending to my emotional needs but once someone helps fill some my brain goes crazy and I can’t get enough.
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Sorry you're struggling so much with attachment issues. Yeah, I think that's some of what happened to me with MC. It's like he tapped into some unmet emotional need...nerve or whatever, and it just unleashed more need. I got some reassurance, it felt good, so I wanted more. I think with current T, there were a few sessions in a row where it just felt we were really connecting, that he understood. (And that included a couple weeks with two sessions a week). So then it was like, "OK, now I'm going out of town and not saying why or where" (even though he told me a few weeks before that he'd be away this week). It was like, I felt connected and understood, like maybe I was getting some needs met, and then...he was going away. For a whole week! Which upset me, but he didn't seem to understand why. And I think that flare of neediness (as you so eloquently put it) is what prompted me to e-mail MC Sunday. Because I didn't want to bother T (even though he'd said he'd be checking e-mail), and I knew there was a chance MC could give me what I wanted (and he did.