Posted by DAisym on June 20, 2007, at 0:34:19
In reply to It came up of course, posted by Dinah on June 19, 2007, at 17:17:10
I'm glad you talked it out.
A while back I kept telling my therapist that I felt the need to make him angry...I wanted him to pay attention! But I couldn't figure out why or really, even to what. At the worst of it, I ditched him. Didn't go and didn't call. But he reacted with concern and worry, instead of anger.
In the end, after much discussion, we kind of decided that I was just acting out a lot of old stuff -- wanting someone to see how much pain I was in and how angry and scared I was.
I can imagine with all the pressure on you lately that you want your therapist to notice and help calm things, even things out of his control. It sounds like the discussion you had was a really important one.
How worried should he be right now? Are you doing OK?
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