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Originally Posted by chihirochild
I survived skiing! My thighs are sore but I feel good otherwise--nothing broken, despite a massive wipeout halfway down an intermediate hill.
In other news, my T and I have been considering increasing session frequency from once a week to twice a week. But in one of those weird paradoxes of which my therapist is incredibly fond, T says that I have to be stable for that to happen because he doesn't want my illness to be the mediator of our relationship, doesn't want more sickness to mean more attention, etc. So now there's a part of me that's kind of afraid to tell him if I'm not doing well, because I would like to have two sessions a week.
Therapy is so so weird. (Or, perhaps more accurately, my therapist is so so weird.)
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So...you can get what you need only as long as you don't actually need it?  That makes no sense to me.
I understand what he's concerned about, but it seems he's over-complicating matters by about a bajillion. How about this: If he offers you the treatment you need when you need it, maybe you develop an understanding of how and when to get support needs met appropriately by others? (I dunno. It sounds reasonable, to me anyway, and avoids altogether the whole issue of whether you meet his criteria for doing well enough to get extra support.)
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