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Originally Posted by fille_folle
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.
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Hugs, FF...Hm, it didn't occur to me that I could make an appointment with my p-doc during that week. I mean, it wouldn't be a full therapy session, but she does do 25-minute sessions (and I think has option for longer ones maybe?) At least that would be someone I know and generally feel comfortable with. I think I just worry if for whatever reason I end up being in crisis that week, that I'd be kind of stuck (I know crisis lines, but...). And I could send T an email still, but I'd rather not do that if at all possible. I'll ponder it, maybe ask him next session if other clients use that option of the other T. Again, there's this other part of me that is just curious as to what she's like and what she might have to say.