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Apr 07, 2020, 04:20 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Is life on hold for everyone? Am I expecting too much? I'm doing telephone sessions with my pdoc and with my therapist. To put it bluntly, the sessions are so frustrating that part of me wonders if the stress is worth continuing.
Maybe my providers are under stress with all of this insanity (pandemic); perhaps I am seeing their humanity without the level of professional demeanor I'm used to seeing. Maybe doing therapy over the phone feels awkward for providers. Or maybe they purposefully avoid going too deeply at this time. 
An example. I just had a phone session with my therapist (been seeing her for 18 months). She was chatty; every time I tried to get into a deeper subject she would come back with "positive" encouragement or an example from her own life about how good something turned out.
In short, I felt like I was being too needy...yet I didn't really feel like I was asking for too much. I mean, I'm struggling with horrible anxiety and a degree of depression. I know that most everyone is at this time. But she's my therapist, so...?
Ugh, I don't know. I might be reading too much into this and I should just calm the eff down. I can't seem to get out of my own mind and if the whole summer is like this...I'm scared.
I know most (or all) of us who are in therapy are not doing sessions in person. How's it going for you? Do the tele sessions feel really different than in person sessions do? How are you coping?
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