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So I've had 3:30pm on Wednesday with T since the beginning. So, for 20 months. H is going to do some travel and I wanted to free up 'needing' him to come home at 3pm to be with my oldest 3 kids when they come home from school (while the 4th goes to a preschool/daycare and can be there till 6pm). So, I asked T on Monday if I could change Wednesday from 3:30pm to 1:30 or 11:30....and she was able to do it already for today (because her 11:30 Wedn. switched to Tues. 2:30 this week too).

So, maybe that's why today was so off....

I kind of felt sad. And angry. She said I looked sad. I was completely different than Monday. Stupid mood swings.

But, I'm worried now. I'm already thinking about cancelling Wednesday completely, because it felt so "off." I also go Mondays at 11:30. That was added 5 months ago when I needed more support when I separated from H (he's back home now).

Today felt so bad I want to cancel this coming Monday, anyway. I didn't feel comfortable in T's office. I didn't want to talk to T. I wanted to run away....

Yesterday I actually found out from her office manager that T is out of the office Wedn - Fri next week. So, I can't go Wednesday next week anyway. I'll have Monday and then 7 days to the next Monday. Maybe if that feels okay, I can just cancel Wednesdays all together.

I'm just venting, and rambling....and knew this was a safe place to do it.
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Ninn,

I was just thinking about this today! My T is so different between the morning/afternoon - in the afternoon she has almost too much energy for me to handle. I'm also different in morning/afternoon or if I've been at a full day of work or just a partial day from home because I'm seeing her. It's very difficult for me to get emotional after work because I spend so much time being "professional" and/or present somedays that I'm so far in my left brain I'm not really in the right place to be in therapy (but actually today I went after work and got some really good issues taken care of that a more emotional Monday morning version of myself wouldn't have brought up for a while). I really didn't like the feel of my T2 (either her OR me on Fridays) but we work well together on Thursdays. For a while I had a Monday morning/Wednesday afternoon thing going on with my T and it was a good balance because we could get all kinds of work done but... phew my T is an afternoon person and she is just full volume present in the afternoons and sometimes I can't deal with that intensity (obviously the difference is pretty subtle it just feels BIG to me she is always attentive/sweet but it's just... crisper after 3pm LOL)

Anyway I can relate to Ts being different on different days and feeling different about therapy. Give it time... it may feel better Frowner Adjustment periods are really hard, it took me a while to get used to the difference in my T and any changes I've made with days/times I see either of my Ts right now what I have worked out has been perfect and it took a while.

It might be worth it to go to the new time for maybe 2-3 sessions just to see! Frowner Give it a chance... like an interview/trial period Smiler
Thanks for listening Cat, and giving me your supportive words.

11:30am is her first client therapy appt....she does testing/paperwork or something all morning before that....so I think that affects her....and then of course it is right before lunch, so she is probably getting hungry....one Monday 11:30 appt she was trying to stop yawning the whole time (once she told me she goes to school Fri-Sun in another state one time a month (because I had a dream about her going to school so I asked her)....I'm guessing it was that weekend and she was quite tired that Monday)....you're so right....I'll need to adjust.
Echoes, thank you for your kind words.

I've been thinking a lot about my session yesterday, and it's only Thursday.

I've come to the conclusion that I am really angry I changed my 3:30 time, to 11:30.

But, I know this is the inner-child being angry and trying to make it someone else's fault, when I chose to do this, to help out H.

I guess I am worried, that if I wanted to change the time back to 3:30, it won't be available to me.

I didn't cancel Monday's session, so I guess I'm going to go, even if I start the session by saying, "I don't want to talk to you today." Maybe it would make for an interesting session.

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