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If these conclusions are not accurate, I could really use hearing them challenged at this point.[/i]

Am I conveying a need for support here? Am I being too needy or demanding? Am I looking for support in the wrong place? Would you reply to a message like this?


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I can tell you how my T would have responded to that - he wouldn't have responded. I literally have to write the words "please respond to content" or he won't respond. This is something we worked out early in therapy. Even if it seems SO clear to me that I want a reply - because I am literally asking a QUESTION! - he won't reply without those words. It drives me a little crazy, actually, and we joke that there is an implied "you ***" at the end of those words ("please respond to content...you ***!")

My T probably would have read your e-mail, felt concerned, and talked with me about it in the next session. As much as that sucks.

I wonder if you could clarify with your T if she replies to e-mails? I know I've read that there are some people on PC who have said that their T doesn't do e-mail, but addresses the e-mail in session. I don't think her lack of reply implies that she doesn't care, isn't concerned, wants you to go away, or that you're being too needy and demanding. At all. I suspect it's one of those sticky communication issues that just needs to be worked out.

((((((((((((((((((((((( chaotic ))))))))))))))))))))) I KNOW how awful it feels to send out a vulnerable, honest e-mail like that and then to get no reply. Ugh. I'm sorry it feels so bad.