I’m very conflicted with my T since our last session earlier this week and now I’m debating whether to go to my next session tomorrow. I actually want to drop therapy all together. I’m having a very bad week to begin with. I reached out to him on the phone but he wasn’t very supportive. Then in the session, he wasn’t supportive either. He is a professor and his students say he gets annoyed at questions. Well, at our session, he brought that annoyance with him. He didn’t have a lot of patience with me, and I felt him to be cold and distant. I’m really trying very hard to work on my trauma issues, he tells me so, but at our session his responses were condescending. I know some of you might be thinking that this might be transference, but it is not. I felt a hundred times worst after the session and a very intense anxiety attack afterwards. I couldn’t go to work today. I actually took off and left everything behind. I just want to be alone. I should be able to call him when I get this bad (I have in the past) but I don’t really want to talk to him. It’s the first time this happens after ten months of seeing him. I know Ts are human and that they have their bad days too. I’m normally numb but now I’m flooded with feelings and I find it to be very unmanageable, uncontrollable and scary. I can’t stop crying and feel out of control. Also, today happens to be my brother’s bday, he died only a few months ago. I don’t want to go to therapy tomorrow, I don’t want to feel worst than I already am and I feel like he has let me down. What ever happened to unconditional positive regard for the client? I hate that Ts have so much power over us. To go to therapy tomorrow I would have to go back home but I don’t want to. Running away feels good right now. I feel so alone and scared. I don’t even want to call to cancel. Do you guys think he knows he was like that with me during our last session? I kind of feel like no matter what happens in that room ,it’s always us.
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The patient's job is to repeat in the therapy all the stuff that has been disastrous before. The T's job is to not let it happen, but to point out how it is happening.
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