Posted by Daisym on May 18, 2006, at 2:13:05
In reply to Re: I called him today and left a message, posted by happyflower on May 17, 2006, at 17:50:50
I'm so sad for you. I've done exactly what you did so many times and I would ask myself what I was hoping for -- did I need my therapist to chase me and "prove" he cared or did I really need some space to see why I still needed therapy. Somehow we always worked it through, sometimes he would chase me and sometimes I'd realize that i do need therapy, I'm not finished yet.
The relationship you have with your therapist is complicated and I think it leads to these melt downs. We go through a tough patch and they handle it and we throw more curves and they handle it and we even tell them off, and they handle it. So living without them becomes really painful, because we want them to keep us safe within their understanding. We are finally experiencing something we never have and I think we are simultaneously soothed and torn up by this.
Therapy is very hard work and gets very painful. Taking a break can be a good thing, if done for the right reasons. Talking it through can help.
Good luck with this.
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