Posted by shortelise on July 28, 2004, at 19:18:05
In reply to Confused, posted by vwoolf on July 27, 2004, at 3:56:13
A year is a short time to be in therapy. Let yourself do whatever you need to. It sounds like she's a good one, that she really does care.
Maybe some therpist become therapist because of a capacity to care about others, because of a desire to help others.
Do you really think your therapist is plotting to make you call her for her own gratification? That she is plotting to hurt you once she garners your trust?
It took years for me to trust my psychiatrist. And still, I sometimes am afraid that he will turn on me. We talk about it, and talk about it. It seemed to me at one point that as soon as I yeilded to that comforting image of leaning against him, he would leap up and destroy me. I did, and he didn't - even now in the last phase of therapy he is proving kind and gentle and respectful.
Keep at it. The very fact that you have that image of lying with her on your back in the sun means that you are progressing, doesn't it?
Shorte
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