Post here if you are missing T over the holidays. I think this can be a place where we can support others who are going through T withdrawal or just those who need some extra support during the silly season.

My T returns on the 10th of Jan.

Thanks for this thread, IT. I see my T twice a week normally, so I'll miss four sessions. I am not quite sure how I'll deal with it. Nobody (almost nobody) in my RL knows I'm seeing a T and I would not have been able to go to appts at my usual time anyway, but that doesn't make it easier.

What helps is that I know that I have made it through much longer T breaks before. And T knows how hard it is for me. And on all four days when I would have seen T, I will be doing somethng out of the ordinary.

What makes it harder is the time of year. Stupid Christmas, stupid new year "celebrations" ( I hate fireworks with a passion) and a difficult anniversary on top of that.

I'll see T on Thursday this week, and then on the 7th.

[archipelago]

I am also missing 4 sessions so it is a half a month for holidays I don't celebrate. And I also have a difficult anniversary that last year triggered me powerfully. So I am not sure how I'm going to do. Plus I'm still struggling with a vegetative depression that the meds aren't clearing up yet so we just added something. Not a good time for my shrink to be away. Hopefully things will be quiet and the meds will start working so I don't need to have the sessions but I don't like the idea of a long break.

[ThisWayOut]

My t will be gone 2 weeks also... I'm hoping it won't be too bad. I dislike Christmas, but i made it thrOugh last year without a t down here, I'm telling myself i can make it this year too. I had hoped to have a day program to get some extra support, but that failed. I'm trying to work on an art piece to show her when she gets back. We will see how that goes

Thanks for posting this thread!

I am missing 3 weeks of T, which is 6 sessions

T asked me if there was anything I wanted to ask of her to help me get through this next few weeks . . . I wonder what she might have said yes to

[Elektra_]

here there is no break... is working days, so i still have therapy

[newlyborn0372013]

Well today was particularly rough for me emotionally. And I still have the rest of this week and then next week to go. I've been struggling with wanting to just make contact with my T since it really sunk in that I wouldnt be seeing her for a while. That plus what I'll be facing next week and Christmas day is leaving me feeling very fragile and I feel like everything that I've worked on to get me prepared for this has gone out the window.

I had been going to therapy twice a week since September, and there is no one in my real life that knows that I go that often that can provide the support that I need. My mother thinks that I only go once a week and she thinks that even that is too much. So I'm definitely having withdrawls.

But I did email her about something trivial just to see if she would respond back and she did, and we had a little chat which helped a bunch, but then I started to feel like I was being a bother I passively ended it by saying that I would see her at our next session. :/

[Nightlight]

I'm struggling with it already. My last session wasn't great and I've got three weeks to go before the next couple of sessions and then another break. I'm not even sure I can afford to go to more than about six more sessions in total next year.

It feels incredibly difficult to be separated from this one person that I'm so attached to and at this time of year too. I will never be a part of her life (that's the way my therapist worded it when I last saw her), but she will always be such an important part of my life. I will never really be able to wish her a merry Christmas. So, like I am so good at, I am just surviving from one day to the next.

[lightcatcher]

8 weeks to go. It's a bit f$*# up.

[JaneC]

This time of year is normally very tough for me beause of family, and also the anniversary of a major trauma...and this year it is troubling me terribly with overwhelming flashbacks that I dont have many skills for managing well yet.
So the thought of not seeing my T for 3 weeks was really worrying me. He is working through apart from stat days but told me he would not be able to have booked appointments as he needs to be available for intakes and crisis appts only.
Today when i saw him and expressed my worry about having little to no support for the next 3 weeks...he offered to see me each week eventhough he had said no previously. I was surprised, and said it would be great so long as he wont be in trouble form the powers that be! I guess thats him.....so, thank goodness for that.

Originally Posted by lightcatcher

8 weeks to go. It's a bit f$*# up.

That's really tough. My T takes 8 or 9 weeks off in the summer so I know it's very hard.