Oh T, things were going so well in today’s session but you just had to go mess it up within the last 15 minutes. I really appreciate that you have clearly taken on board what I wrote in my email and you were trying to meet some of my needs that I talked about.
But then calling my childhood experiences a ‘case of parents using old fashioned parenting techniques’ felt like you were completely downplaying what happened to me. We have talked about the fact that I witnessed domestic abuse, I was on the receiving end of violence from my dad, I was verbally abused by my mom and dad and had none of my emotional needs met. It was hard for me to accept that this was abuse when I worked with my previous T, but eventually I did. But now you’ve made me think I’m just being a drama queen and I’m making it out to be worse than what it was and I should just get over it as it was just old fashioned parenting and it’s no big deal. Why did you have to say that? I feel so stupid and ashamed.