What is the therapy for emotional neglect?.also thanx for expressing that you have it means alot

I experience it that way. There is the void from the emotional neglect, the fantasy of someone filling it, the obsessions about the relationship with that someone which acts to fill the hole, compulsions making sure the relationship is still there, shoe isn’t dropping…

Yes!!!

… you feel a Current of excitement rip thru your body, when you envision your safe space aka the therapy room

anything happens, (good, bad,) and the first person you think of telling, is your therapist….

@hope, exactly! I really thought I was probably the only one dealing with it.

Thank you Michali and Fay!!

I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels like this. It really helps to know others struggle with the same thing. Thank you for sharing.

@melissa I do the same thing where I tell myself enough and I don’t need her but then shut her out all together.

I wish I’d have advice, and some kind of solution for all of us struggling with this. I think it’s just a phase (a long, hellish phase) that we have to go through in order to heal.

I have times when I decide enough is enough and that “I won’t let her mean so much to me,” but that means I shut her out altogether, which is horrible in its own…Read More

mlove, these are painfully awesome!

…you have a million things to discuss with your therapist, and when finally in session you draw a blank and nothing seems worthy of discussion, so you just sit and while away the therapy hour with a staring contest.

I feel like you took the words out of my mouth. I literally feel the exact same way about my therapist. One week she wasn’t there, and I found myself crying. I as well feel so dependent on my therapist. (And now that we have no more scheduled sessions (because it went through the school year as I went in school)  it’s even harder because I just…Read More

these are all so so relatable and I feel so much less alone! Wow.

… You wrote down a whole list of things to discuss and then in session are too into one topic to go through half the things

…You wait all week for your session and then when it’s over you want to go back and wait all over again

…You keep checking your texts to see if your therapi…Read More

Perlita, this so resonates!

I’m forever searching in books for that answer that will finally relieve me of this unrelenting ache.

It’s so hard to face that the work is so, so slow and so hard and there’s no way around it. <3

I would say I know I want to be in therapy if…

I am downloading mental health apps and buying a ridiculous amount of self help books saying THIS is the answer.

I really hope more people chime in here because this is not spoken about enough and is clearly a challenge for many of us.