Posted by Dinah on May 21, 2004, at 11:44:33
In reply to Chickened out, posted by Aphrodite on May 20, 2004, at 19:15:00
My therapist says there's never any reason *not* to call. If he can see me, he will. If he can't, the worst that will happen will be that he'll say no. I've sort of reluctantly accepted the truth of this, except that I don't think he understands that "no" hurts. But I call him now and ask for what I want, and accept his answer knowing that he'll give me what he can.
And I don't know that you chickened out of anything. You brought up the very difficult subject of your therapist's avoidance of emotions you think you can handle. That you feel like you could work harder if you didn't feel like you needed to worry about him. Heck. That's a very very courageous thing to tell your therapist.
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