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Originally Posted by SarahSweden
Thanks for your thoughts on this. Itīs touching to read that she cared too much, I mean seriously, not in a negative way. Whatīs hard to understand is the connection between her telling me early on that I could see her for as long as I needed when knowing that wasnīt so and her caring about me.
That she knew about the session limit from the very beginning but kept talking and acting like we could continue is very hard to understand. To me she in a way lied or at least she wasnīt honest about the situation.
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Originally Posted by SarahSweden
To me it feels like my therapist now donīt care and itīs important to get thoughts on that even if I know it wonīt change anything. But itīs important to understand and to put the pieces together.
My therapist said she was sorry and I heard on her voice she meant it. At the same time itīs difficult to accept such an excuse as being sorry for something she did week after week, exceeding the well-known session limit, is not just a mistake. As others have pointed out, perhaps she cared too much.
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Don't know if this will help with an understanding, but your observations above suggest to me that the therapist is living partially in a "fantasy world", in touch more with her hopes and wishes with regard to practicing "therapy" and not so much with reality.
In that world, then, it's like you were more a fantasy object than a real person -- someone to care for. But the caring was within the fantasy world, not objective concern for you as an independent, real person, with your own real life and everyday concerns, apart from the therapist.
Super sucks. And -- even though it's only digital and virtual -- you are real to a bunch of us here.
