Posted by fallsfall on September 13, 2005, at 22:13:44
In reply to Found out more - bad news (Trigger), posted by Dinah on September 13, 2005, at 18:26:41
Oh, Dinah. That isn't what he was supposed to say.
Please drive carefully tomorrow. And please bring stuff with you so that if it isn't safe for you to drive 3 hours back, that you can stay in the city where he is overnight. Make sure you bring your meds. And you can call me if you end up staying and don't have access to the internet.
You know that he cares about you.
Don't you hate it when you think you have things all figured out and someone throws a curve ball at you and everything is up in the air again? And for those of us who count on stability to keep us together... This kind of environment is so hard.
Life without your therapist **IS** worth living. Do you remember how tied I was to my first therapist? How I thought I couldn't survive without her? How painful it was to leave? But I'm OK now - better than I was before. You and I are not the same. Your connection to your therapist is different from the connection I had with her. But the point is that I thought I wouldn't survive and I did. I thought I wouldn't survive, but I DID survive.
He will be around as long as you need him (inconveniently, but nonetheless, around). He does care about you - that's why he'll make sure that he DOES stay around as long as you need him.
I wish that I could do more for you. But at the same time, I have a basic confidence that you will figure it out. That it won't be easy. That it will be painful. But that, in the end, you *will* figure it out.
And I'll be here typing away at you, and watching you shape your life. (((((Dinah)))))
I hope the session is helpful for you tomorrow.
Love,
Falls.
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