Posted by Dinah on July 22, 2003, at 17:28:27
In reply to Re: A little scared, posted by fallsfall on July 22, 2003, at 16:24:13
Sounds as if you have everything well in hand. And it doesn't sound as if your new therapist is anti-med on principle, which is good.
My therapist likes to be in touch with his clients' pdocs. I no longer use the pdoc from Hades he usually deals with. And my current pdoc sees no reason whatsoever to speak to my therapist, although he said he'd do it if I wanted him to. Faced with such a lack of interest, my therapist apparently decided not to pursue it. He does complain (correctly) that I don't tell everything to my pdoc. But my pdoc has a way of nonverbally letting you know what he doesn't want to hear. I warned my therapist that if he did contact my pdoc, he'd be hit by the same wall of concrete if he tried to tell him certain things.
You know, you said you just wanted her to wish you well. I think under those circumstances, I'd want an awful lot more from her. Maybe an acknowledgement of where she went wrong. A recap of all the good that went on before that. But from what you've told us, working with a client's feelings for her is not one of her strong points. And I'd probably never get from her what I wanted. But I'd probably be pretty darned upset and angry about that. When you're ready, it's probably worthwhile to work through whatever complicated feelings you have for her.
It's odd the things we keep locked away even from ourselves. I've spent the last two sessions being pretty much knocked sideways by something from my childhood that I didn't even realized bothered me. It's opened up all sorts of other feelings about events and people in my current life.
poster:Dinah
thread:244162
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20030719/msgs/244325.html