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Originally Posted by WePow
But in that session when T told me the insurance denied me, and T clearly saw my face change, T said "Do you mind if I handle this now - with you here?" ??? I was like "Sure!" And I sat back and watched him call the insurance. He was so firm with them! I had never seen that side of him!  He told them "I have a client here who is suicidal and has severe PTSD with dissociative identity disorder" (stuff the insurance already knew as he has to tell them my DX -- and I WAS very suicial at that time due to the heavy trauma work). He said "You WILL approve these sessions for my client." They put him on hold and transfered him to a manager. They told him they would "look into it" and he told them "No. I submitted this request two weeks ago and I need to see her TODAY. You are going to approve this for my client right now!"
They did :-) And they continued to approve his requests all the way through the end of the year regardless if I needed only 1x week or 2x week. And I was able to first hand witness and experience what it was like to have an authority figure STAND UP FOR ME!!!!! |
Thank you so much for sharing that story with me...that must have been incredible to witness your T doing that for you. When my T said he would try the insurance company a lot next week he said he would hit them hard, and they might give him more sessions or tell him to hospitalize me. Obviously he wouldn't, but he said "do you know how many times I could see you for the amount of money it costs to hospitalize someone?" He was basically saying insurance companies are rediculous. This just made me very thankful he was willing and able to stand up for me and just like you, saw the pain in my face talking about potentially quitting therapy and going through the "crisis" I'm in with no resources. I never really had that much trust or faith in him, just becasue I have issues with trust and people not living up to what I expect of them...but this was the first time I saw that I could put my faith in him and be pleasantly surprised. Also, he said that I need to let him take care of things and himself...becasuse I want to take care of him or protect him from me essentially. So, this gave me more comfort to, I need someone to release me from the duty of taking care of them. Anyway, thanks again for telling me that...definatly gives me some hope! Big hugs back
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Originally Posted by poetgirl76
I'm so glad you could have that connected feeling too, and that you could ask for what you really needed!  And I've learned that it's like Tree said, too - the connection/trust may feel like it ebbs sometimes, but it comes back....and for me, it's come back stronger! So I hope you can hold on to, keep this good feeling and really get some good work done in therapy now.  |
Thank you, I plan on "working" now...for as long as it's going to take.
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Originally Posted by treehouse
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Tree, I will always remember this...becasue I am a person who feels good for while and, like you said, starts to doubt it and talk myself out of it. As much as I want this feeling to last forever, I know it won't but I will remember that it will come back evenutally. Thank you
