Posted by tabitha on February 27, 2004, at 0:44:38
In reply to Needing Your Therapist/Cycles, posted by DaisyM on February 26, 2004, at 23:43:08
I was a needy and distressed client for many years. I had the fear that my therapist wouldn't care about me unless I was having a crisis, and I even went so far as to think she wanted me to be sick because she somehow got off on caring for desperate people. It was a long time before I was ever out of the pit enough to see how she would respond to a less crisis-ridden me. I learned she is equally responsive and 'there' for me when I'm stable or even working on positive growth things, rather than just doing crisis management. It was hard to believe, because I had non-therapy relationships that really did deteriorate when I wasn't so sick anymore. So... the moral of the story is you might be surprised to find your therapist can support you all along the way.. from crisis to stability to growth.
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