Posted by fallsfall on June 23, 2005, at 20:20:41
In reply to Daisy - I am worried for you, posted by pinkeye on June 23, 2005, at 17:37:10
Pinkeye,
I know that you are going through a very difficult time right now. And I know that your post comes from a part of your heart that wants Daisy to be safe.
I'm not sure exactly what happened in your previous therapy, I haven't read your posts closely enough to know. But, I do know that you are experiencing a lot of pain right now, and I wish that it could be different for you. Therapy can cause pain sometimes. Sometimes we have to go through that pain in order to get better, and sometimes the pain is just there and isn't helpful for us. But therapy can also help us heal. For some of us, we need that healing in order to live. So therapy IS a gamble - always. The human mind is not an understood and predictable realm. And trusting a therapist is always a gamble. No one can ever tell you for sure if therapy with a particular therapist will be helpful or hurtful for a particular person. We hope that we, as patients, can be receptive, and we hope that our therapists can be skilled and caring. Most of the time, I think it does work out that way (but not always).
If I'm understanding your post, you care about Daisy and want her to use due caution so that she won't get hurt in her therapy. That is a wonderful sentiment. But she asked me to respond to your post because at the moment she is in a difficult position, and she didn't feel able to respond herself. She has a lot of very hard things going on right now, and saw her therapist for the last time this afternoon before he goes on vacation for a week (she'll see him again on July 5). It is very hard for her to have him go on vacation without feeling like she is being abandoned. He left her a nice voice mail message telling her that he would be back, and she is trying to hold on to that. It is hard for her to read posts about termination right now. So that is why she asked me to respond to you.
I'm sorry (and she's sorry) that you are hurting, but she can't talk about this topic right now. I hope you understand.
Falls.
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