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Originally Posted by Xtree
Do you have a dependency on the therapeutic process? Sometimes this scares me to death and I do not know what to do? I think I see it as a temporary influence in my life and it would terrible to develop a dependency on something that can end at anytime.
Do not get me wrong, I think it is a great process and it is working for me for now. I think it also might have something to do with the one sided relationship concept that everyone here keeps talking about, I do not understand it. The one sided part makes it feel much more volatile. I am not sure and at the moment I am little confused.
Xtree
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Yes, xtree. I am dependent on the therapeutic process and I've been dependent on my Ts too. It's a Catch-22 situation, I think. We've got to trust our Ts with our secrets, and intimate details of our lives. They don't tell us their secrets. It's so nice to have someone listen to us and give us 100% of themselves during our session. It's easy to become dependent on the process, at least it was for me.
But therapy doesn't last forever. The hard part is to become independent and move away from our Ts, just like becoming an adult and moving out of our parents' homes. I'm still working on this process, and it IS a process. Ending therapy is bittersweet, but it means we're capable adults.