In a fit of rage one day (my psychiatrist was running an hour late and I had been sitting there all that time waiting for him), I yelled at the receptionist and all the people in the waiting room, them I grabbed my father and stormed out screaming "that if I wanted to wait an hour to see my psych I would go through the public mental health system". And that "if I was going to fork out all this money to see him, then he could damn well be on time!!'. By this stage, my Dad was trying to calm me and then I started crying. So then I am yelling and crying in the car park and screaming at people to stop looking at me. I was having a REALLY bad day.

About an hour and a half later, I got a phone call at home from my psych. He had heard everything I said(even from the car park) and wanted to see if I was okay. So then I let him have it......sign of disrespect to me for him being so late, someone should have called me and told me he was running late and so on and so forth. He just took it on the chin and gave me an hour session over the phone for free. Thankfully, he did not suggest increasing my Olanzapine and we talked about my issues with being heard, the feeling that I am never validated and about the things I can change and the things that I can't. I apologised for my terrible behaviour and hoped that I had not traumatised other clients that were in the waiting room. We got off the phone friends again

If the T is worth it, they will never turn their back on you if you are angry with them. They will try and work it out and discuss some of the deeper issues. I mean, I was right to be angry about the fact that my appointment was not on time, but there were better ways I could have dealt with it. And my psych helped me to see that.

Just a little story out of the many......

Take care.

Michah