Yea I did. Years ago when I was in college and was taking a class called Personal Psychology we had an assignment of bringing something to class that would discribe "Who I am". Wel I could not think of anything to bring and I also wanted to be original. Most people when the words bring in something think that is some object. I didn't have ONE object that discribed me I had many This toy this food and so on. Then I finally said ok I can put into a peom who I am and read that to the class.... Writers block coming up ... so I went to my therapist and asked her to write down what she thought of me. I also had my boss and my friends do that too. Then when I got the papaers back I tied their thought together with a sentence between each and then my view of myself in the last verse. Each of my friends and therapist and boss recieved a copy and I got an A+ for a grade. I went first during the class because I knew the long I waited I would chicken out of reading the poem and the instructor just amazed that I did that. mainly because she had never heard of anyone asking a therapist and so on what they think of the person.

As for asking my therapists in general. No I don't usually ask them. I know what they think of me by their actions ... for example last night a friend was over and we were watching tv when my therapist called AFTER working hours. (my friends all know I am in therapy and for what so I answered the phone and my therapist said that she had just read a letter I had wrote to her just before thanksgiving (it was a non emergency info letter that I had told her could wait until after the thankgiving holiday.) and she was so struck by what I am doing to help myself that she just had to call and tell me how amazed and proud of me she is. Then we made plans to bring the work I had been doing on my own discribed in the letter into my sessions.

I used to say to my past therapist that I was crazy and she said right back "I''m not crazy I just feel that way." she did this so much that I started to use that sentence and soon I was actually believing it.