Posted by Dinah on July 8, 2013, at 13:02:51
In reply to Re: Trying to keep a promise...., posted by Twinleaf on July 8, 2013, at 12:48:56
A lot of people felt that after Katrina, New Orleans would never really get back on its feet. A lot of home purchases were made in the first month or two after Katrina. I actually understood the impulse, although I advocated avoiding hasty decisions to my family and workplace, and more practical ways to "do something". I guess it was a symptom of the hopelessness that was in the air at the time.
Does his ambivalence lessen your feelings of abandonment?
Intellectually I know that the reason my therapist was so happy to get away, not that he said he was happy to be away, was that he was happy to be someplace "normal" where you weren't reminded every minute of the facts. He was even happier to go abroad for a while for work.
But all I heard was that he was willing (and happy) to leave me. That he said he couldn't be my therapist anymore.
When it comes to abandonment issues, my reactions are very much those of a child. Still even. It's fine for me to discuss this rationally, but I never feel rational about it.
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