I suggest that the first thing you talk about with your psychiatrist when you see him/her is just what you are saying here. Talk about how it feels to you to have to sign a paper like you did and the implications. I think it would be helpful to look over the paper together and talk about it. You sound as if you don't feel safe talking openly with your psychiatrist. That you need to talk about too. I can understand your fear from the things you are talking about and your perceptions. But I also know that the more the two of you talk together about the things that frighten you (if indeed your psychiatrist is providing you psychotherapy in 50 min. sessions) the more you'll get your working relationship sorted out. Then you can relax and settle in to your therapeutic work. It always takes a while to get to know your therapist as you know since you have had experience with therapy in the past. So each of you is learning something about the other and it's all new.
- Claire
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Originally Posted by gypsymama
I was recently appointed a psychiatrist/ therapist by the psychiatric hospital I had the joy of visiting recently, and they made me sign paperwork stating that if I miss appointments with this therapist or don't go along with his plan, that I will be hospitalized again!! How is this even legal!!! I had to sign the paperwork or they wouldn't finish my release from the hospital!!!
How can I go into a therapy session and be open and honest when I am terrified that saying the wrong thing is going to get me hospitalized??? I have had therapists in the past, I agree that therapy works and have always been open and honest with them. But now, there's no way in hell I can tell this guy how I really feel. I can't tell anyone how I really feel. I don't want to be put in a hospital ever again! It was traumatizing for me. I'm scared and paranoid even talking briefly about that experience here.
Anybody out there have any suggestions?? I have a week before I have to go.
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