Posted by raisinb on April 17, 2008, at 11:25:23
In reply to Re: should i walk away from therapy? » raisinb, posted by CareBear04 on April 16, 2008, at 23:00:56
Hi CB--
I can't remember what she said, specifically. I went through a loooong period when I threatened to quit almost every session. I did it because I was hurt and scared and I felt like she wasn't hearing me, and I needed to hear her convince me to stay. I guess it meant to me that she cared, that she wanted to be there, that she'd do what she could to listen to me and take care of me in this relationship (which has been quite rocky!) Eventually, I guess she started to hear and meet those needs a bit, and I stopped feeling like I needed to threaten to quit to get what I needed.
I bet your therapist WOULD go above and beyond. It sounds like it, anyway. But I guess what I think is that your feelings of being unfixable, not worth it, might resurface even if he did. If you expressed those feelings directly, it might be more productive and therapeutic.
Good luck with it. These therapist relationships are so, so difficult.
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