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Originally Posted by Bill3
I mean that the abuse you ecperienced growing up was pervasive, it touched and affected many parts of your life, it got into your central core and affected very many of your feelings and experiences. It was a big deal and that is why it still hurts you now.
With regard to T: the standards for involuntary IP are as feralkittymom and I said above. However it would b naive to imagine that all Ts follow these standards with exactitude. You could ask T about it, hypothetically. Ultinately, though, you would have to be able to trust her to do the right thing, to be professional. What do you think? Does your experience with her to date give you good and sufficient reason to trust her?
Good job passing the time!
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Yes and no. When I first started with her, she (well really her supervisor) kinda tricked me into IP. I had been saying a lot of dark things and I sufficiently scared one of my friends that does not go to my school enough that she called my counseling center and said she was really worried I would kill myself. I went in at a time that wasn't my appointment time because I needed help for the thoughts I was having at the time. Someone called her and her supervisor in and they told me that they wanted me to get checked out at the hospital. They had one of the RAs come take me to the hospital and when I was there, I was told I had to either commit myself voluntarily or I would be committed involuntarily. I literally had nothing on me but my phone (which was I was not allowed to have in the psych ward) and the clothes on me. It was terrible, but luckily my social worker noticed how stressed and triggering the hospital was and convinced the rest of my team to let me go after two nights. I lied about the severity of my condition for months after that. IP was probably the right thing to do then though in all honesty.
But since then, I have told her about sui thoughts (ish) without having any intention of doing them and she didn't report me or anything. She wanted to be extra careful that I didn't have intention, but she didn't overreact.
I should say that her supervisor is actually never present unless there is a risk for sui. If they are concerned that I am a danger to myself, the head of the department comes in and my T and her make a decision about my treatment. She's not really a "supervisor" per say.
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Originally Posted by feralkittymom
Growlithing, if it's any help, my T directed a Univ counseling center,, so his practice there was largely traditional aged students. The philosophy with that age group, in particular, is to do the most conservative treatment possible: so, diagnoses tend to be the least stigmatizing, and interventions are as rare as possible while still meeting standards of good care and safety. There is also great care taken to limit future access to records as much as possible.
Part of this is because the clients are often adults legally, but there's a recognition that maturationally, they are young adults in transition. No one wants to burden anyone with a case history that could be lasting, for a condition that may very well be temporary.
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Yeah, they haven't diagnosed me with anything. I got my diagnosis of ADHD years ago. I was actually diagnosed with it multiple times but my mom never bothered to treat me for it. She would just have me retested over and over trying to find someone who would diagnose me as "normal". It was really damaging to do that because she would imply that having any sort of mental illness was something to be ashamed of. I knew I had ADHD for 18 years before I got treatment.
But part of that is that I’ve been diagnosed with other things too… but I have no idea what they are because she still believes that having any sort of mental illness is shameful and I suspect that they might serve as some proof that what my parents did affected me. I know that I was diagnosed with adjustment disorder at one point. My T and I question that diagnosis though because there was nothing I would be adjusting to in order to cause adjustment disorder and at that point, I wasn’t talking to anyone about the abuse I experienced. I know she is suspicious of an anxiety disorder- specifically PTSD- but neither she nor my pdoc have diagnosed me with anything.