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Riptide said:
Well, I think you need to talk with your T about it. But if you read anything, the literature talks about going too fast, lose of control, etc and increased contact with clients.

Additionally, the beginning of therapy should be you and T working on how to pace it. T should be helping with this, so that you are not constantly feeling out of control or thinking about upsetting therapy things.

There have been examples of even therapists working with visualization of opening a box during therapy and closing the box at the end of therapy. In fact, this is done in alot of child therapy. Kids put away there stuff, both emotional and play things, in their box to close the therapy.

There is also a period of "testing" the therapist. Ie. If I contact T, will T call me back, respond to me, abandon me? This is well documented in the literature. This period of time lasts at different lengths for different clients.

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I love the closing of the box analogy...I close my cement box, wrap it in packing tape, double padlock it, booby trap it and then I do my best to forget where I've put it!!