Posted by emmanuel98 on January 3, 2011, at 22:13:05
In reply to Re: dodged a potential humiliating moment » annierose, posted by Dinah on January 3, 2011, at 21:52:56
I see a DBT therapist and I called to ask her to change the time of our appointment. She changed it, but forgot to call me. So I went at the regular time, only to find she had someone else there. She saw me waiting and called me in first to apologize and offered to see me two hours later, which was fine. When I got there, another patient was leaving. I felt overwhelmed by this --seeing her patients parade in and out. I cried through the whole appointment and couldn't even explain why. Later, I told my p-doc and he said, if you were our only patient, we couldn't afford to pay the rent. Which is true, of course. But it's hard to see it close up. My p-doc has always kept my slot kind of sacrosanct. I don't know if this is on purpose, but I usually am his first appointment of the day and I usually stay a full hour because he has nobody scheduled after me. This isn't always the case, but is usually the case, so I feel bereft when he says, at ten minutes to the hour, we need to stop and find someone sitting in his waiting area.
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