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Originally Posted by Claire89-2
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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While I appreciate what you have to say, the psychiatrist I have to see works for the hospital that I was admitted to and I have to return to the same building for my appointments. There is no showing him the paper and discussing it with the psych ward 10 feet away. This place is a mental hospital, if you disagree, you get thorazined. I saw it happen over a dozen times during my stay with only 15 patients on the ward. I cannot disagree with the paperwork or treatment. I cannot get upset in any way. I cannot raise my voice. I cannot speak my mind. I plan on sitting in the chair and smiling and saying everything is fine until they let me go.