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When I first went into therapy I started EMDR for PTSD as I witnessed a incident on a train but once I started my psychologist realized that I also had deep rooted problems from my childhood and that he diagnosed CPTSD and we tried carrying on with the EMDR but I kept getting stuck so we moved...

Great thread ! I have nothing but positives to say about my psychologist and I will never forget him and everything he has done for me.He is one of the most kindest,understanding,caring human beings I have ever met. I appreciate everything that he does for me and I honestly think he has the...

I have this kind of discussion with my psychologist every time he takes some kind of break.I tell him that I see at as some kind of abandonment and that he should help me with this, but then he turns around and helps me see that he has a life and has a right to time off and in truth there is...

In therapy I am learning to live with and understanding PTSD and CPTSD rather than recovering from them.I think it would be very difficult to change my mindset completely as this is something I suffered from for a very long time.

I live in the UK as well and as James has said on the NHS we get no choice in to when our sessions end.For me because of a past experience in therapy I find endings really hard to deal with,I am about to finish soon with my present T and I am dreading it.

As the only person who has said those 3 words I don't feel like I have over stepped the line at all and my therapist's response was 100 % professional. If I could turn back time I would do exactly the same thing again and I don't feel ashamed at all.All I know I would have had regrets by not...

I told my therapist a couple of weeks ago that I love him.The kind of love I feel for him is a mixture of all kinds of different types including romantic. For me it was something I had to say before my therapy finishes with him and if I wouldn't have said it I would have had massive regrets. I...

My thoughts are with you.It looks like your therapist has done the one thing they shouldn't do which is to breach your trust. I think you are doing the right thing by not going back again and I hope that you are able to move forward and trust again with a new therapist.

I agree with @UnicornSightings it is a laboratory filled with mixture of love and kindess and you get intoxicated on the fumes from your therapist. My therapist has never got annoyed at me but there have been times where his mask has slipped and I have seen a slightly more annoyed more side to...

I am in the same boat as well but over the last few weeks I have started to realise why I feel like this towards him.He has the type of qualities that I have been missing in my life,he is kind,sweet,understanding,speaks calmly and he listens to me,who wouldn't want those things in another human...

I went into therapy because I have PTSD because of incident that I had seen on a train so I started EMDR but as we were working on things it became more apparent that I had other issues going on which lead to my prognosis of CPTD. Since the EMDR didn't work for me I changed to doing CBT course...

I am from the UK and I see my psychologist on the NHS.I do believe in the UK it varies from country to country and from region to region. I have lived in two different places within the UK and both areas are very different,one was in a very busy area and the other is in a small town. For me the...

@DogLover33 I know we had a slight falling out on your other thread and for that I am sorry but I was honestly just looking out for you. When I have read your posts I can see alot of me and I think we are quite similar. I orginally went to see my T with PTSD but after a while we discovered that...

If I am honest I hate anyone being late but on the couple of times my T has been late I have tried to take other aspects into account as he lives about a hour away from where I see him. There have been times where he has over run with me but there is a space in time between me and his next...

It is strange because the moment which I got closest to my therapist is a session when I got angry with him and cried the whole session.After that session I realised that I had let him in,let my guard down and for the first time in my life I had trusted a man. I do have transference towards him...

I really think when you are ready you need to talk about abandonment with your new therapist. I have massive abandonment and attachment issues and I am coming to the end of my therapy sessions and I am absolutely petrified but as my therapist pointed out to me my abandonment problems are not...

As @Abstract has said you are doing really and the fact that you want to carry on with therapy is a positive thing. Your feelings are not going to disappear over night and that is why it is important that you talk to your new therapist about the way you are feeling and hopefully they will be...

How are you feeling today ? When do you see your new therapist next?

I think everyone deals with therapy in different ways and whatever is comfortable for them. If you feel like you can't cry you shouldn't over think it or see it as a failure because it really isn't.We are all humans and all deal with painful things in different ways. You have been extremely...

I didn't lecture you,I gave you advice.I was looking out for you as I didn't want someone to take advantage of you. It is your life and if you want to be friends with him then go ahead and do it.I can not tell you what to do ,it is pretty obvious that you need some kind of help and support with...

Don't put that on me as it isn't fair.It is completely up to you what you do with your life. Nobody is telling you who you should be friends with we are just giving you our advice on how we see the situation. Instead of shredding it why don't you use as a opportunity to have a honest talk with him.

I click with my T as well and we have alot of things in common and there are times where we even think the same thing at the same time .We are both human beings and have a connection as well but he has very high ethics and would NEVER take advantage of the situation. You want to be his friend...

Call my old fashioned or ethically minded but I really do not think that a professional person should be texting a client outside of therapy especially about things that are not related to therapy,to me that would be breaking boundaries. Maybe it is different in the USA but I know in the NHS in...

Just an update.Today I saw my T for the first time in two weeks which in itself was an achievement of some kind because I came pretty close to not turning up today. We talked about how I love him and what love means to me and strangely enough it felt quite natural for him to know , not that...

Well done for going to your appointment,you should be proud of yourself. You shouldn't be embarrassed as you have been through alot over the last week and the fact you could let go is good sign. It might take a while to build up trust with your new therapist but it sounds like they are willing...