I feel I am maladaptively daydreaming way to much about him. Instead of getting work done or focusing on studying, I am daydreaming about different types of scenarios with him.
It is all consuming and I just do not understand anymore. I worry about how and when he terminates me. I read to many stories of therapist referring their clients out because they could not deal with the transference or felt the transference was hindering therapy. I will not discuss this with him. He has got to know to some degree that I am attached to him.
I think I am so broken from childhood that this will never go away.
I also try to think are the problems I went to him for abated? I went because I was so bulimic, self harming and continuously wanting to die and always thinking about sui***. In 4 months I have only thrown up twice so that is in recovery, I have not self harmed and I do not get triggered on a continuous basis. I see the reason for the form of recovery because I can vent to him during the week and I see him twice a week. Now if he just terminates me would all that just come flooding back in? That scares me.
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.
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