Posted by DAisym on July 30, 2007, at 0:19:36
In reply to He emailed me!, posted by JoniS on July 29, 2007, at 23:44:30
So, when you received his email, did you feel like he was interjecting himself into your "real" life? Or did you feel cared about and held in someone's mind? I think it was very sweet that he reached out to you, just to "touch" for a moment and remind you he is there and thinking of you.
I think we do tend to overanalyze all of our impulses with our therapist, and perhaps they do it to. The relationship *is* loaded, but sometimes the human thing...the nice thing...is to just say, "I'm sorry this is happening and I hope it gets better soon."
Who wouldn't appreciate hearing that? And how nice that you truly wish that for him, in the midsts of all your other feelings. I think it would be perfectly OK to email him and say so.
Therapy is so very complicated. But I hope it never gets so complicated that we can't feel empathy and/or sympathy for our therapists when life throws them a curve.
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