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New therapist - what to expect?
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<blockquote data-quote="TiredSoul" data-source="post: 482339" data-attributes="member: 3930"><p>Thanks Martie! I had a big long cry after I read your post. difficult child met with the therapist for the 2nd time today. I had the opportunity to go in prior for a few minutes and tell him about the emotional meltdown difficult child had last week about doing poorly on his test. He mentioned something about "proximity seeking" and when I google it I find it relates to attachment. So what does that mean? </p><p></p><p>He already asked me in my first meeting with him if we had a normal attachment after difficult child was born and we did. He was wanted, planned for, and I loved him, and cared for him. No pp depression. Nothing tramatic happened, no death in the family - nothing. He was for the most part a perfect baby until age 1. Then the night terrors and crying for hours and head banging began. But thinking about attachment - is it possible to have attachment problems later even though we had good attachment in the beginning? It's almost like difficult child thinks if I buy him things then that means I love him. And if I don't - then I don't love him. Maybe we really don't connect anymore. Sometimes I think our relationship really has been damaged somewhere along the line. I am just so lost as to what to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TiredSoul, post: 482339, member: 3930"] Thanks Martie! I had a big long cry after I read your post. difficult child met with the therapist for the 2nd time today. I had the opportunity to go in prior for a few minutes and tell him about the emotional meltdown difficult child had last week about doing poorly on his test. He mentioned something about "proximity seeking" and when I google it I find it relates to attachment. So what does that mean? He already asked me in my first meeting with him if we had a normal attachment after difficult child was born and we did. He was wanted, planned for, and I loved him, and cared for him. No pp depression. Nothing tramatic happened, no death in the family - nothing. He was for the most part a perfect baby until age 1. Then the night terrors and crying for hours and head banging began. But thinking about attachment - is it possible to have attachment problems later even though we had good attachment in the beginning? It's almost like difficult child thinks if I buy him things then that means I love him. And if I don't - then I don't love him. Maybe we really don't connect anymore. Sometimes I think our relationship really has been damaged somewhere along the line. I am just so lost as to what to do. [/QUOTE]
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