[lrt1978]

My T left a voice message as I wasn't able to answer the phone about confirming an appointment.

Does anyone else have one saved and listen to it when you are feeling low, have high anxiety and find it kind of helps a little.

Kind of feel a little weird about it but if it helps, there's no harm in doing that is there ?

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[Freewilled]

I don't have any VMs saved because mine auto delete after a period of time /: but I do have some texts. They don't say anything significant, but I will occasionally revisit them and it seems to help me. Yeah - I feel weird about it but I don't know why it would be a bad thing.....

[HealingTimes]

I have text messages, but would love a voice mail.

I have told my T that i re read the texts when i need to feel close to her and she understood and didn't think it was stalker- ish

[Steph44]

Yes, I have several messages saved on my iPhone that are from my T as well as a few from my mother because their voices bring me comfort. But I also have my old answering machine tapes from college(over 20 years ago) and I still save my phone messages(I put my phone on speaker and use a tape recorder). It is truly an oral history/diary of my life and I love the fact that I have recordings of family members who have since passed away. I think it's a great idea and if it helps you, then use it as a strategy.

[PeeJay]

I have voicemails from T that I save for months and I listen to them periodically because they make me happy. The voicemails themselves are nothing special, just confirming appointments or availability.

[anilam]

No harm in that and if it's helping you I'd say it's great.

[SoupDragon]

Yep from the same circumstances as you.

[tealBumblebee]

I agree with everyone else, that it's just fine. I find that my automatic reminders her office sends a few days before an appt. are quite comforting even though they say absolutely nothing except "You have an appt. with Mrs. T on X-day @ X-time." Also, like someone stated before, although I don't have a voicemail from her, I do have a boat load of emails from her (about 25) that I reread (i've mentioned it before to her as well) when I need comforting because I miss her or reassurance that she is not going to "abandon" me. No harm, no foul.

[ECHOES]

Yes, it's so nice to hear her voice. I also have called her phone to listen to her recorded message. I thought that was pathetic, but she thought it was a novel idea for coping.

[Hope-Full]

Sigh..... I had some, three to be exact, on my old iPhone. When I got a new one (this was moving from an original iPhone to like the iPhone 3? maybe) I lost them all. I actually cried. I loved listening to those messages and T was ok with it too, as T knew they were a helpful tool for me.

I now have on message and I've got it memorized so that I can hear Ts voice in my head when I read the message (I transcribed it so I could read it in case I lost it for some reason.)

[lrt1978]

Thank you everyone. This T is the 5th one I have seen and it's the only one I have saved the VM and listen to when feeling down or just need a little calming. I like the idea of the recording it onto a voice recorder, might do that as the message I don't think will stay that long saved in message part of my voicemail xxx

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Yes done that. My t also makes me youtube videos of herself so i can see her (we are on other sides of the world right now for the past 2 years)', and we also, when she was still home, made recordable stories together, so that i could hear her voice.its comforting.

[pmbm]

When I or one of my parts is having a difficult time with a memory or concept or thought, I ask my therapist to leave me a message reminding about what we talked about or what she would say to me or my part if I was with her. This gives me something to listen to over and over again and also prevents me from calling her nonstop when I am struggling but not in crisis.

[Daeva]

YES! I have one saved it's short so often times I call her phone after hours and her VM is LONG so I call over and over to hear her voice. It calms me