Posted by Solstice on October 23, 2010, at 13:25:32
In reply to Re: please help, posted by Annabelle Smith on October 23, 2010, at 12:44:05
Wow! You have got some dynamite instincts, girl.
You are spot on about the agency thing. I wish to goodness that I had felt that sense of agency when I was spiraling downward in a toxic therapy. It was actually a very quirky thing that extracted me. It's too long of a story to share on your thread here, but I congratulate you on knowing that you DO have the agency! If therapy is not helping you - then you owe it to your well-being to get out of there. That 'free' therapy might 'cost' you way more than the cost of asking for family contributions or getting an extra job. The biggest cost of all is if it (the free therapy) were to damage you in ways that mine damaged me. My current therapist tells me that it is amazing that I have been able to 'do' therapy at all.
Anyway, I think you have a fab plan goin' there. And don't worry about your attachment to your previous therapist. If he knows what the heck he's doing, then that attachment is a good thing... it can 'save' you. :)
Solstice
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