Posted by lookdownfish on July 28, 2004, at 4:04:10
In reply to Should I go or should I stay?, posted by thewrite1 on July 27, 2004, at 17:17:25
I feel exactly the same way, and have done for a couple of months. I love my therapist and the thought of leaving her appalls me. But I'm basically a lot better these days and don't have so many issues. So it seems wrong to stay in therapy just because I'm attached to her and don't want to leave her. I also just don't know what to do with the sessions, because I don't know what to talk about and it all seems like a waste of time. I talked to her about leaving and she said aren't you curious about yourself, don't you want to dig deeper, and these kinds of things. She said the therapy I had had so far was the equivalent of a sticky plaster, implying that it is just superficial. So I feel a bit manipulated and boxed in, she has made me feel like leaving would be a failure rather than a good thing.
How do you cope when you have a break from therapy? We're on a long (6 week) break at the moment so I guess it's a good experiment to see how I cope without her. I'm also trying to establish what exactly it is I want to get out of therapy - I need to answer that question before assessing whether its time to finish.
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