I don't know. I don't think I'd see someone else if my T was only away for one week. I wouldn't want my T telling them anything, including a particular diagnosis - unless the person had experience in that area, I guess. But I would still feel like a freakshow and my anxiety about it would probably make meeting with a backup counterproductive. I would consider it if I wasn't doing well and my T was going to be gone for 3+ weeks. Otherwise, I expect I would just try to hang on. If things got really bad, I might reach out to my former, long-term T for support, just to have a lifeline. And if things were absolutely critical, I guess I could make an appointment with my psychiatrist. I don't have any emergency contact info for her, but if I couldn't get an appointment, I could probably message her in her EHR. But at that point, I think the "solution," in the absence of my T would be hospitalization, so...

Gosh, somehow I've gone and made myself terribly depressed and on the verge of tears and feeling like my T is going away for a long time. I am so maudlin sometimes.