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Originally Posted by Omers
My T allows me to email as much as I want (he even specified want as opposed to need) BUT in my situation I need to understand he may or may not get a chance to read them that day or even before our next session. He does promise he will read all of them eventually and that if he has not read something I need him to read for session I can tell him which one and he will read it in the beginning of session.
Since the pandemic I have really only had H to talk to so poor T has gotten a lot of emails. I did clarify with him what my expectations are when I send him an email (I don’t care if he waits until session to read them, I don’t expect him to read them during his free time and I will specify if I would prefer a reply). He has had no problems with all my needyness.
Other T’s have made big promises and then gotten angry though so...
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With long term T she did at one point bring up maybe cutting back a little but it didn't mean to stop. She was very gentle and reassuring. She insisted I was not too needy. I have talked to current T about feeling needy and it traces back to my abandonment issues.
I talked to T a few weeks about sometimes messaging her some thoughts that I need to get out. That unless I specified I needed a call or something she would replay that she recieved the message. I have always known that she will check her messages when she can and that on occasion she reads them and can't mmediately respond. Sometimes she forgets to go back and respond.