Posted by Sigismund on July 12, 2009, at 0:35:13
In reply to I miss my therapist so much it hurts (very long), posted by peddidle on July 11, 2009, at 20:56:21
>I am trying not to email or call her, because I know I need to keep that distance in order to get past this, but I feel like it's getting harder and harder to live with the fact that I can't see her or talk to her anymore. I'm trying not to pick up the phone and call her office just to listen to her voice on the machine, because I know it'll just make me more upset. I'm trying not to email her, because it hurts when she doesn't respond, and it hurts even more when she does respond, because it makes me miss her even more. I just don't know what to do. I mean, I could talk to my friends, but no one can really understand what this feels like unless they've been in therapy, and had a really strong bond with their therapist.
Ah, the human heart.I wonder how many good terminations there are?
Mine wasn't crash hot.
You always hope that there is a space in their heart for you and never believe there is, because your contact is bound by the limits of therapy.
(Was this where my T talked about me getting inside her?
I forget, it's so long ago.
When I asked her about her training analysis she said she'd forgotten the details, which [she said] was maybe just as well.)Still and all, my belief is that missing someone is our way of keeping them alive in us, and is therefore good, though painful.
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