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Old Jul 09, 2020, 12:22 PM
FluffyDinosaur FluffyDinosaur is offline
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Originally Posted by BethRags View Post

Yes. I have a strong intuition that we share a number of background experiences.

Are you able to do teletherapy? I am, but the sudden changeover from in person to tele...honestly, I flipped out. I felt betrayed, abandoned, and generally screwed over by the entire universe. It took me a month, but I've finally resigned myself to teletherapy; I'm bearing with it, and some good has come of it.

Yes, I had the same reaction to teletherapy, especially the sudden changeover. I was already in a nasty episode at the time, and I had expected my therapist to be there for me to help me through it. With the sudden change to teletherapy it felt pretty much exactly as you describe, like a gross betrayal. I felt like the fact that they just dropped me like that in the midst of an episode showed that they didn't really give a damn. I ended up in a full crisis and now I'm still dealing with the fallout, as I think you are, too.

Luckily the crisis team that I eventually ended up seeing was able to offer me face-to-face therapy to bridge the gap and there was a Pdoc there that I really like who helped me a lot. I'm actually kind of sad I can't see her anymore. Now I'm back with my regular therapist and trying to rebuild, but it takes time.

I suppose if they had told me in advance that we would do teletherapy and it was only for a few weeks, I might have been able to deal with it. But in general I just don't feel the same kind of connection with teletherapy. And now that this has happened I think I'm less able to deal with teletherapy or gaps between my sessions than I was before. Now I'm even having trouble with one session per week, bridging the gap from one session to the next.
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*Beth*