I felt so guilty dropping my last therapist but he would just sit in silence not saying anything after I’d finished talking, so I’d panic and fill the silence with irrelevant rambling, which he would then respond to and ask me if he was making sense like he was insecure about his role as a therapist.
I’d spend 5 minutes every session trying to make him feel better about himself. I felt awful because he was technically a trainee and I thought oh nooo someone needs to tell him he’s not doing great so he can improve, but also I was there for being a horrifically compulsive people pleaser so it wasn’t going to be me! I lied and said I feeling better after 3 sessions and didn’t need help anymore which probably didn’t help 🤦🏻♀️
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u/SnooFoxes1943 2d ago
isn't that, like, the opposite of what a therapist is supposed to do?