Posted by noa on April 24, 2004, at 8:13:50
In reply to T's and Vacation??, posted by Speaker on April 22, 2004, at 9:15:24
My T doesn't usually say where his vacations are, but he will say if he is going to be covering for himself or having someone else cover--i.e. if he is just vacationing at home, he says that if I need to I should call and leave a message and he'll call me back but if he is away, he gives me info on who is covering for him.
Interestingly, there have been many times when I was very afraid of how I was going to deal with the gap in sessions during his vacations, and was sure that I might need to call him or call his covering person, but I rarely did because just knowing that I could was enough. The first few days of the T's vacation, I'd feel the loss and anxiety about getting through it, but then I'd usually be ok. Except I once went to see the person who was covering when my T was unavailable for a few weeks because his wife had died. It also occurred during a period when I was very depressed anyway. It helped to talk to this other doctor to get through it.
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