During the last session with my therapist I felt weird, like we were somehow distant emotionally and I had this feeling that I can’t say anything right and that I was boring. I am very attached to him and feel so bad right now. Why did I feel this way?
While I can’t know what you feel, what you are describing sounds like a common example of someone who has [...]
As a therapist, what do you do if you think your client is just generally a bad person?
As a therapist, I do not think of people as “bad” or “good” people. I think of them as complicated [...]
Is seeing a therapist for moderate depression like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?
Not at all. I’m going to let you in on a little known secret about therapy: you don’t have to [...]
What good is therapy if it doesn’t give me closure?
I’m going to say something that might be controversial and not the answer you are looking for. There is no [...]
Is it common for those diagnosed with BPD to use the push-pull tactic? Pulling you back so they get the opportunity to devalue you again?
As others have indicated, this is not a “tactic”, it’s an unconscious result of splitting or seeing things as either [...]
Which profession causes the most amount of depression in people?
Full transparency I googled this question because I was curious. I got mixed results although it seems that doctors and [...]
I told my therapist that I loved him and he hard-swallowed right after. What do you think this could mean?
People are not like a chemical solution that turns a specific color when a specific chemical is mixed in. They [...]
I’ve known her for 2 weeks, we’re both adults, not teenagers and we’re so good together, but is it a good sign that her mother wants to meet me?
This suggests a number of possible “signs”: She has a close relationship with her mother. She thinks the relationship might [...]
How many months do most relationships last?
It doesn’t matter. Unless of course, you are trying to write a research paper on relationships, in which case you [...]