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said she doesn't want to work with me anymore. After 5 years. She is limiting her practice, blah, blah, blah....doesn't want to be on-call anymore, thinks I need something different...

I'm devastated. I feel so betrayed. And duped and stupid and alone.

BTW, I never called her between sessions. Not in a continual crisis, dx of major depression only.

This turtle is going back in her shell, and staying there.

Okie

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Did she really dump you, or is it rather that she is cutting back her practice and has to take less patients? You weren't the only one, were you? BTW, she has a legal obligation to refer you to someone else, or it is dumping.

Your not stupid.
She sounds like she was really harsh when she told you this bombshell-- I think you have an opportunity that just opened up in this surprise shocker; this therapist of yours obviously isn't ready for the position of responsibility a T has with their patients. It's good news, because this one probably wasn't a good T with her recklessness.
Now you can get a new T. when your ready, and you'll know what NOT to look for in a T.
I am really sorry, this stuff hurts. I know someone who really got dumped by their T. It hurt him too, and his response was to just become really depressed and then to say that therapy is stupid, waste of time, therapists don't know anything, etc... don't go that way. Take the high ground, rest your mind for little bit, and then pick yourself right back up and get back into the game.