Posted by Dinah on March 12, 2005, at 8:22:47
In reply to Re: therapy ending - my heart breaks, posted by alwayzblue222 on March 11, 2005, at 4:25:53
Oh, I am so sorry. That must be so scary for you.
Are you able to process your feelings about this with her? Or is it too hard to mention for fear of hurting her?
I think this is my biggest fear now that I no longer fear that my therapist will ever terminate me, and he seems happily married to a woman who won't move. (blessed woman) So now I watch his excessive cofee drinking and worry about his weight and if he's getting enough exercise and ask him what will happen to me if he dies.
It's hard enough for me to discuss those things with my therapist and he's well. It must be so much harder since she's sick.
I gave my therapist a printout from the internet yesterday about plans therapists should make for their incapacity or death. And his response was something along the line of some people don't like to make those plans, like making a will, because they don't like to think they can die. I happen to know he hasn't made those plans (hence giving him the printout), so I gave him a hard stare and told him that *some* people might, but that I expected better from *him*. No way I could have done that if he were currently ill.
How are you holding up under the stress? I'm sure, though, that your therapist is a wonderful example to you of persevering under difficult circumstances.
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