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Originally Posted by KLL85
I know I feel exactly the same. For me therapy is an essential service, it literally saves lives if people are suicidal. But I guess it’s down to the individual therapist.
My anxiety around phones and online means therapy via those means is not possible so I have been without any support during the whole of lockdown and have struggled immensely and have been very suicidal at times.
Fortunately my workplace have a counselling service and I had a couple of sessions with them before lockdown and last week they have now begun to allow a limited number of face to face sessions again as they can use the large meeting rooms in the building that would usually be used for large groups. But they are only allowing a maximum of 12 sessions which is far from ideal but I figure it’s better than nothing as I currently have no other option to get face to face support from elsewhere.
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I'm so sorry, that sounds awfully hard. I'm glad you have managed to get some support from your work counselling service, it's certainly better than nothing. I think therapy is an essential service too and I hope more Ts recognise that it's not the same over phone/video as it is in person. People who don't have that as an option suffer the most.
I hope that soon they'll be able to work out a way to resume in-person sessions that is both safe and reasonable. I wish my T would be open to a walk in the park, but sadly I just don't think he's that sort of therapist. I think that a lot of us who post here are deeply attached to their Ts and this whole coronavirus thing has hit us hard where it hurts the most--our support system. I'm grateful that my T makes extra effort online, but it's just not the same.