I’m Scared That My Therapist Is Abandoning Me

Please don’t leave me, doctor.

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I saw four therapists before the one I have now, over a period of four years. It never really clicked with the others. The first kept trying to explain my depression, exploding with eureka moments about what had or hadn’t happened to me, most of them incorrect and highly inappropriate.