Posted by Dinah on March 6, 2006, at 22:34:20
In reply to Is this supposed to work?, posted by All Done on March 6, 2006, at 10:43:57
I wish I knew. I wish I knew whether there was really some benefit in attaching to our therapists, or if it's something you just have to get over.
Obviously, looking around Babble, some people have gotten a lot of benefit from it. And others have ended therapy without having gotten much benefit from the attachment. What makes the magic alchemy I don't know.
I think maybe I wish I had never gotten attached. Once I got attached, I don't think telling him so added to the hurt.
There's not even any advantage to going to the sex of therapist you aren't normally attracted to, because obviously therapist attachment knows no sexual lines.
Maybe those who came through to the other side better off than when they went in can chime in to encourage the rest of us.
poster:Dinah
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