Posted by tarabara on December 13, 2005, at 16:10:29
In reply to Forced distance (long), posted by LauraBeane on December 9, 2005, at 9:58:19
hi laurabeane. i am too being treated for ptsd and have had huge issues with distance and boundries. i also experience the hot and cold in therapy and can never figure out if it is me or my therapist, who is also a male (i am female.) a girlfriend of mine mentioned to me that it seems i am really hard on my therapist. so, i told him that in session last week. he asked if i thought i was being hard on him, i did. i then asked him if i was being hard on him and he told me that he would be lying if he said no. he said that this relationship has been very hard on him however he is willing to handle it. i caught a look in his eye that looked like he was going to cry. it only then hit me that i could have this effect on my therapist. it was a good reminder that i can have this effect on people and it was a reminder that he is human. maybe you can ask him about how/why he has these boundries and to describe his thought process when he goes through them. it might help you to get over some of the pissed off feelings that i know we have all felt.
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