Right now I am seeing my P who I have been seeing for over 10 years. He is the one who I am so in love with and he has been there for me through everything.
I am also seeing my T who I have been seeing for 10 months. She is great and there is some maternal attachment but not super strong like my erotic and paternal transference towards my P.
Lately I have been feeling like I am the child stuck in the middle of the two parents (my P as the dad and my T as the mom).
When I grew up my parents would fight a little but most of the time we would get told by mom what she did not like about dad and that would happen quite a bit. And every once in awhile my dad would do the same thing towards my mom.
I used to get very defensive when my mom would talk bad about my dad or say he wasnt doing something right. I think that is partly because my dad had been around longer than my step mom had. My dad adopted me when I was a year old and his wife died when I was four. So he was around awhile before the step-mom came into the picture.
So right now my therapist is not real happy with the way my psychiatrist is doing things. They have decided I have ADHD. They both agree on that and my therapist wants me on medication for it and is very frustrated that my P did not want to put me on ritalin or something else right away. My P know I have a history of abusing meds and have only been clean for 10 months and wants me to make it longer before he hands me some kind of drug I can abuse.
I understand why he is doing this. He needs to trust me more. We have discussed it and he and I agree that its best to start me on welbutrin for now and see how that does and then when I have been clean longer we will try other meds.
My P only says nice things about my T which makes me feel a little better but right now I feel like the kid stuck in the middle. My "mom" is upset with my "dad" whom I love and I am a big time daddy's girl in this relationship and very defensive of my "daddy"
My old highschool P also pointed this out because of an email I had sent him. I did not tell him I was feeling this way, but because of the conflict between my T and P he questioned it and said he was worried. He thinks I need to talk to both of them about it because there is a risk o falling into childhood patterns and reenactment of childhood relationships.
I am not sure what to do or if I am just crazy for feeling this way or how to even bring it up or explain how I am feeling. Has anyone else ever felt stuck between their T and P or two T's? Like they were a child stuck between the fighting of their parents?