Poll on Walking Out

Walked out/stormed out only once - after about 10 minutes (the first and only time I went to him) of T1 trying to put all kinds of words in my mouth I had enough and got up and left and slammed the door on my way out. He was the jerk of the century.

yes, i have walked or ran out of t so many times i lost count.
mostly because i would get my feelings hurt

he has always let me come back, so far....

No, I haven't walked out early. But at my last session, I was so sick of being with myself that I wanted to leave early just so I wouldn't have to be with me, if that makes sense. I stayed until the end, though, but left very promptly. If I had left early, I would have explained why to T before I departed.

I used to do this a lot. Not stormed out. But snuck out the door from group therapy and support groups. Figured no one would miss me anyway.

same here...

Only Once. Not angry though. I had a flashback, couldn't verbalize it, felt overwhelmed and embarrassed, and walked out. It was about 20 minutes in and I pulled out my pre-written check (because I always have it ready) handed it to him and said. "I'm really sorry, I just can't talk today". It was fine, I texted him an hour later (per his request) and let him know I was okay. I would do it again if I had to.

I realized that I have done this. My very first session with my very first therapist. He was talking about feeling pain and anger and fear in therapy. I just said, "No. No, I won't," and I left. I was always a little amused by how surprised he was when I came back the next week. I was willing to go to therapy, but I wasn't willing to have those emotions.

I've never walked out in the middle of a session, but I've been tempted to. I knew that leaving was not the most productive way to deal with my emotions, so when I feel like that, I usually get up and walk over to the window to look out instead. There have been times at the end of session when I've pretty much bolted, but we're done and the session is over.

I forgot this one time. my t and i were on a "field trip" (and out of office session; for me, its exposure therapy). We were going to walk around my school campus, because that was a trigger for me. She was like, "you are about to run aren't you? i can feel it!" becuase I was so close to just running back to the car. Then she made a comment about how she wore running shoes and that she would chase me if i ran. so i didn't lol

I walked out after about twenty minutes not long ago. There was too much silence and silence makes me uncomfortable when I feel vulnerable, like I'm in the jungle where a cobra is using the silence to gather himself in the perfect position to strike. And I was in a lot of physical pain, and I just told my T what was true, I didn't want to be there. I wasn't angry or even really distressed; I just wanted to go home and lie down. He did seem a teeny bit surprised that I was there the next week, but he covered it up well. The next week was a good chance to talk about other things in my life that I couldn't or wouldn't walk away from.

What is the poll hoping to achieve?

Wow, reading the responses makes me feel like the weirdo here- yes, I have walked out in anger 2 or 3 times with my last T. I think I got up and said something like, "Sorry, this is a total waste today...."

No I'm not rich enough to be wasting money.

There have been times when I wanted to do that, but I was not sitting close enough to the door at that time.

I think for some people, letting themselves recognize and act on the ability to storm out could be seen as progress, particularly when they saw it did not destroy the therapist or the ability to go back.

Walked out of group therapy a couple times or so. Once when the T was being stupid and another when the T didn't want to work and gave us word searches and puzzle busy work and I refused to waste my time doing puzzles.

I used to walk out every single session, lol. Its actually not as dramatic as everyone thinks, when you walk out. The Ts dont really care, as long as you come back the next week and keep on paying them that money.

The one I have now insists on goign over everything in excrutiating detail if I walk out. So now I don't walk out, I just go off my head at her to her face, and then she ends the session because she thinks I am too aggressive. So I get her to get me to leave, same result, lol. But its like I tell them: its either I leave, or I stay here and get violent. Leaving is the lesser of two evils, in my opinion. They usually agree to that and so me walking out every session has never really been an issue for any T i have had.

Oh and I only ever walked out of one group. It was a social support group and the supervisor guy was all angry because I did not feel comfortable giving my phone number out to anyone (you are supposed to in that group) even though I had been there for like 5 months. So I told him to F himself and left, basically hehe. I shouldnt have been in that group in hindsight because I am not interested in calling people up for a chat each week, which you are supposed to do in that group. My bad.

i once hung up on the phone in the middle of the nonsense she was saying