Posted by tabitha on May 4, 2004, at 11:22:11
In reply to Re: Um... » tabitha, posted by Dinah on May 4, 2004, at 8:22:34
Maybe it is time to print out some of my posts. I do talk about all this with her, but maybe I'm not really getting across how put down I feel sometimes.
At one point she said she'd take me out of the group, since it was interfering with our individual relationship. I was afraid of that, because, difficult as it is, I had a lot of hopes pinned on this group experience. Maybe I've been holding in my feelings a bit out of fear she'd evict me from group.
Yes, it's exactly like there are 2 clients now, and I keep feeling she favors group over me. It's reminding me of my brief and horrid experience with couple's counseling (different therapist).
We do spend a lot of my individual sessions processing group. I try to go over my other life issues before starting on group. It does need processing somewhere. If I just went into group with my reactions, I'd probably be too harsh and blaming and end up getting the counterattacks from them instead of her. So she knocks the stuffing out of me first. This doesn't sound good at all does it? I know it isn't her intent to make me feel put down and silenced and made to be wrong, but it keeps happening.
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