Has anyone ever left during a therapy session

I've never physically walked out, but I dissociate whenever I get too uncomfortable... Almost the same thing...

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Many years ago I went to a T that my parents were also seeing. At the very first appointment, he kept trying to get me to say something that was NOT true, so I refused to say it, and told him it was bull**** and got up and walked out. I never went back. He was a jerkwad.

I never walked out on current t when we met in person, but one time during a phone session I got mad and hung up on her. Sort of the same thing, I guess. It was awful and I felt wretched for days until I finally got up the nerve to call her and apologize. We mended that little rift pretty quickly and our therapy relationship is stronger for it now.

I have never done it, but I have zoned out to the point I wasn't there. I have thought about it a few times though. If I end up telling T how I am feeling tomorrow, I will probably be leaving early.

Yes. I've stomped out... and then stomped right back in. http://forums.psychcentral.com/psych...ight-back.html

No. I would feel really rude doing something like that.

That's a horrid thing for a t to say!! How dare she!! I want to call her and tell her that SHE is lame and a weenie.

Yus. Couple times. I've always gone back, though.

Well I was asked to leave to my T could talk to my parent alone. It hurt and I ended up running out of the building...... I did come back but only because I didn't have my car as I came with my parent. I didn't go back into the office, I sat outside. My T ended up finding me and asked me to come back inside. I still wish she didn't go looking for me. I should have ran away from her again

That sums up what I was going to write.

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I walked out after only about 10 minutes once with a male therapist I was interviewing for the first appointment. I was trying to see if maybe a male therapist would be better than I expected. That one was not.

When I was in intensive outpatient therapy I left sessions a few times. One therapist would sometimes give us word searches to do instead of doing a session about anything. They bored me and I got nothing out of those sessions. I would have been okay if we were having random discussions about anything at all but everyone was silent and it was a waste of time so I started leaving when she passed out the puzzles. At least crossword puzzles could have challenged me but word searches? Nope.

I think I walked out of inpatient group therapy a time or two. I can't remember the specifics but the discussion was pointless and again a waste of time.

Nobody ever cared or even asked why I was leaving.

Yep. I slammed the door behind me, too.

I have walked out once or twice (I only clearly remember one time, but I have ECT-induced amnesia and I THINK I did it another time but I'm not sure), sat outside the room for a few minutes, then returned. However this weren't therapy sessions, but evaluation meetings.
Sometimes if I'm really upset I move and go sit on the floor, though. And a few times during EMDR I've physically turned away from the T (basically turned around in my chair) when it got too upsetting.

Never have physically left, and never really wanted to either. I have at times, opened something very emotional and then retreated into myself and said I didn't want to get emotional and just to forget it and once even said "don't push me" if I recall correctly, just to get my point across that I was done or didn't want to start talking about it. Hey, it worked!

Oh, I walked out on a group "therapy" session once - it was more of a discussion about drugs than real therapy. It upset me because my brother was an addict and nearly died once from an overdose of alcohol and drugs.

I did flounce for a better term of the word a few time with P doc. With my therapists i made some excesses early in sessions about 3 time and hurried out the door. I got back in touch and made new appointments.

I can't see myself ever walking out. I think I'd tell her I wanted to sit in silence. I pay good money to be there, so far I have never wanted the time to end, even when I've been angry.

I have asked 'is it time' a couple of times.my t also says that I don't have o stay, but I usually just turn round in my chair and ignore her and look at her stuff. Such a brat.

First, I have to say my T is completely awesome. I was blessed with a T that really is perfect for me.
I haven't exactly just gotten up and walked out. However, just a few weeks she kind of kicked me out. I refused to talk about something and I was angry about her "pushing" me, as well as a lot of other things. After I made it very clear that I had no intentions what-so-ever of talking about our therapeutic relationship, she said, "well, I guess were done for the day." She stood up and I stood up and walked out livid. I have never been so upset with her. I couldn't even drive home I was crying so hard. It was horrid.
We worked everything out. She apologized and I apologized and the whole thing actually improved our already really very good relationship.
I have wanted to walk out because it was getting too "hard" before but I never have. If I ever did, I know that I'd just go calm down, email her, and show up to the next session. We are both committed to working through any issues that come up.

I agree with the person who said, they would have to dragged out of their seat before the hour was up.

I have started to dissociate when things got too intense, but usually I say something like, "no, I can't go there right now" if I feel like I won't be able to handle it. Or sometimes I just stop talking.

I have had to leave group though. It wasn't a trauma group or anything and something someone said was really triggering and I felt like I just couldn't stay. The T went to open up a room that I could stay in until he could talk to me. While he was gone, one of the group members looked at me and said, "I really wish you would try to stay." It really meant a lot to me because I always expect everyone's first reaction, when I leave, to be relief that they don't have to deal with me acting strange and making everyone uncomfortable.

Unfotunately, after trying for a couple of years, I still couldn't handle getting unexpectedly triggered and decided I was just getting retruamatized and I had to leave the group. I still miss them.

I get the same sort of supportive feeling from these forums but I feel safe here.

I've done that, slammed the door,too.

I did twice. After my first t dumped me, i went on a hunt for new therapists. I was very distraught most of the time back then.
I called many therapists in my area.
One i went to, paid, and sat there for about five minutes, and i couldnt stand her, she was not a nice person. I said "ok thats enough" and walked out.
Another therapist i got referred to was a specialist in DID and trauma which i needed. Everything seemed to be going great- he was so nice, like an old grandfather, and he really knew what he was talking about. I was desperate for a nice person after all the t's i had been meeting with.
And he started to say how the person HE would be referring me to was a nice lady... And i said WAIT you wont be my therapist? He said, I thought you knew i was just interviewing you to refer you to someone. Um, NO. Wasnt told that.
I started crying and got up and ran out.
To his credit, he did call me after about five minutes to check on me.

I left session early twice, both times with the same therapist-in-training. The first time, I was stuck in my head (really really worried) and he didn't know how to help me get out. He suggested I could leave early if I didn't want to talk, and I did. I returned to one last session, quit therapy with him, and left early after everthing that needed to be said had been said.

Oh, no. That's so sad. Did you ever find a nice therapist. It was such a relief when I found a trauma t with dissociative disorder experience and knowledge. I felt so calm, and taken care of. (I did dissociate for most of the first three sessions but she handled it so well, that I fell in love. ) I hope you found someone.