help: my psychiatrist is on holiday

so I'm like really attached to my psychiatrist.

and now he's on holiday for 3 weeks. and I don't have an appointment with him until a week after hes back. 4 weeks.

How am I supposed to cope with it?

everything is already difficult enough. traumatherapy. schema therapy. i'm back at school. i'm blocking out my feelings less. I feel more. i'm nervous the whole time. my therapist says I've started my grieving process to do with the trauma.

I feel terrible. and I don't know how to get through 4 weeks without my psychiatrist. I don't even know how to get though one week.

I know I should take one day at a time. but its just all so hard and painful.

anyone have any advice please?

I am not any kind of expert just another person who thinks maybe I have BPD, but I have a few ideas. First ask your psyc if he/she has a back up that you can call or see if you need to. I know a replacement isnt the same, but its something. Then try to identify the feeling you have when you think about the psyc leaving. Are you panicking, feeling abandoned? If you keep thinking about it, you can scare yourself, but you cant just stop thinking about someone that is important to you. Try to think of an opposite positive thought and replace your fearful thoughts. Like imagine walking in for your session and surprising your psyc by saying that you made it through the weeks without falling apartment. Make a visual story in your imagination, maybe even funny if that helps and as soon as you think about this person, think about the positive story. Hope that doesn't sound goofy but this kind of thing has worked for me.

You can go to your pdoc for some anxiety meds to hold you over. If you're in the US you can call 411 for any type of mental health issue or crisis. Also, find some DBT materials online and work on keeping yourself grounded and your emotions regulated. If you have any safety issues, go to the hospital.

thank you both for your suggestions.

at the moment though everything is going wrong. everything.

meanwhile my psychiatrist isn't coming back for another 2 weeks.

alone_lost wrote:
everything is already difficult enough. traumatherapy. schema therapy. i'm back at school. i'm blocking out my feelings less. I feel more. i'm nervous the whole time. my therapist says I've started my grieving process to do with the trauma.

Seems kind of irresponsible for your psychiatrist to leave when triggering abandonment depression in you. Did he/she give you any tools to cope? I'd suggest Distress Tolerance (you can find the skills on Google) for the mean time. Take a warm bath, watch something funny, spray some nice scents on you. Stuff like that.

Wish you the best. I know, it's not fun.

NimplyDinply wrote:

alone_lost wrote:
everything is already difficult enough. traumatherapy. schema therapy. i'm back at school. i'm blocking out my feelings less. I feel more. i'm nervous the whole time. my therapist says I've started my grieving process to do with the trauma.

Seems kind of irresponsible for your psychiatrist to leave when triggering abandonment depression in you. Did he/she give you any tools to cope? I'd suggest Distress Tolerance (you can find the skills on Google) for the mean time. Take a warm bath, watch something funny, spray some nice scents on you. Stuff like that.

Wish you the best. I know, it's not fun.

Thanks for your help. But you know my psychiatrist cant stay just because of me. He needs holiday too