Posted by RealMe on August 20, 2007, at 23:49:40
In reply to Lonely and needing a cure, posted by JoniS on August 19, 2007, at 19:10:51
JoniS
It is a pretty normal part of therapy to have feeling for your therapist, and it sounds like your therapist understands this. If your feeling about this are troubling you, then it is important to address them with your therapist including how it makes you feel to feel this way about him. This will allow you to explore where those horrible feelings about yourself come from. And, you will see that over time you will continue to have positive feelings for your therapist (and maybe some anger at times), but you will later feel okay about those positive feelings as that is what intimacy is all about.
Mind you I say this knowing from past experience and training that this is true. But I am currently going through the same thing, and so you are helping me by reminding me that it really is all very normal to feel that way about one's therapist. The relationship with the therapist in therapy is very important and is a large part of the "cure" so to speak. Take care.
RealMe (OzLand)
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