Friday, January 13, 2012
Why did my shrink tell me to stop coming to her office, upset?
Im a 34yr old female - no siblings. I have known my therpist for 20yrs, shes 72 and really special to me as she supported me through extremely tough times in my life and i made positive changes with her help. Please dont judge, i have gone periods of 5/6yrs with no contact with her and have managed a decent life of my own. I was raised with a severally mentally ill mother who was emotonally negelecful and couldnt be a mother really. However i love her very much and my father. I live 2hrs drive from them. I couldnt live nearby as my mother would move in with me and shes highly disruptive and abusive. I would do anything for them both though. However,they both believe it is 100% my job to move back and mind them in their old age. She is 69 and in nursing home care (only option suggested by her psych team, shes agressive and throws crying fits and tantrums if you leave her alone for 20 mins). Dad is 70 with caridac problems which are under control. Anyhow, i'm back with my therapist again. My mother is in instutional care this past 2 months and i find this very upsetting. My partner lost his job 6 months ago and I lost mine 4 months ago. We are not on welfare and living off savings. However, my partner now wants to emigrate as theres no work around here. My parents will go bezerk and really not be happy at me leaving. I'm back with my therapist over these issues. I've had 6 sessions recently , she says i should live my own life and go wtih my partner. I'm finding this very stressful. She also diagnosed me with severe depression and says to go and get medication from a doctor. She then said she feels bad i'm spending all this money on therapy and says that i can just check in with her by phone soem of the time and not to spend money on sessions at this time. She has always told me i'm one of her special clients and that shes so proud of me. What do you think? I interpreted it as she was sick of me coming to sessions and im a bit hurt?
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