[Teddy:)]

Has anyone ever had (or wanted to have) a meltdown/tantrum over not wanting to leave T's office? If so how did your T handle it?

I've always found the end of therapy hour hard and wished I could stay forever!

[GoodVibrations101]

Originally Posted by Teddy:)

Has anyone ever had (or wanted to have) a meltdown/tantrum over not wanting to leave T's office? If so how did your T handle it?

I've always found the end of therapy hour hard and wished I could stay forever!

I've never found my therapists so warm and welcoming that I've wanted to stay with them all day long. Most have been kind of clinical, cool, and analytical. Also, I haven't wanted to avoid the rest of my life so much that hiding out in the therapist's office seemed necessary. Sometimes, I am not even sure what real value therapists add to my life, since they don't usually make me feel happier, better supported emotionally, or like I have a cheerleader in my corner.

[CantExplain]

I have had sessions when I wanted to stay. Not many.

I've...gotten misty eyed at the end of some sessions. I always brushed it off, or maybe mentioned I felt clingy.

I have been experiencing emotional numbness in quite a lot of sessions. So much so that it's been interfering in therapy (we're doing schema therapy and a goal in that is to bypass the numbness and access the emotions).

Two sessions ago, I got misty eyed towards the end, after spending most of the hour in numbness. I brought it up, and then rather than letting me leave like in previous sessions, T and I talked about allowing the emotions to come up. I resisted, because I knew time was up (her phone alarm vibrated, so I knew...), saying I'm wasting her time, reminding her my allotted time is up etc. She persisted and we shared a short period of emotional connection. Which I valued greatly.

I just had my session again, and yeah, mid way, I noticed from her phone vibration that time was up. Still, she did give me extra time to allow me to come down from emotionality and be grounded before I left.

yes I have wanted to!! i always tend to turn it into a joke by looking pointedly at the clock and saying something like "I'll get out of your hair now" and make myself chuckle and she'll say something about how I am not bothering her.