No T till after New Year

Hi all,
I have no appt with T until after the new year and my anxiety is sky high about everything. I don't know what to do.

Hi Melissa,

I don't have any therapy either until 7th January and I don't know how I am going to cope.
Can you text or email your T? My therapist is going to call me just after christmas but it's not the same

same here... had a huge fight with my mother and don't know how I'll cope.. plus, my T doesn't call or email!

could you call or write?

There is no easy solution in the early years for the 'Gap'. It just had to be felt. BUT the pain I experienced during breaks earlier were the runs on a ladder gradually reaching up to a height where the breaks can be 'reached' & managed.

I've been seeing my t for 6 years. Still struggling with not having another appt until January 7th. This is probably the hardest time of year for me, so I find it very difficult to cope.

I don't have any advice. I simply report that I always got through it somehow, and so will you.

PS:

"Somehow" includes crying.

I've got one more appt this week then none til the new year. I am already feeling it. I always leave therapy feeling invigorated and happy then it goes pretty quickly because I am back into the normal things of daily life. I never thought that I would enjoy and need therapy so much that I would pine for it if I didn't have it for a while. It's going to be a tough couple of weeks ...

Hi Millisa,
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. My therapy apt falls on a thursday so I'll be able to have it I think these next few weeks consistently. On the other hand, I'm still settling in with this t so am having my own set of issues. We're still so new to each other that I think if we had the break it might not bother me. Then again I don't know.
Maybe you could try calling a helpline or emotional support line if you really need to talk. Do you attend DBSA or any other emotional support groups that are free? You can always post here.

I'm also done until the week after New Year's. It's going to be very difficult. Here are some ways I will get through it:

**Guided meditations (mine are downloaded, but there are CDs, too)
**Lots of TO DO lists to keep me busy around the house--cleaning, art projects, etc.
**Forcing myself out of the house at least once every day that I am off work

That's a good plan. A written agenda has got me through many a dark week.