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Old Oct 10, 2013, 07:24 PM
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If googled my T about Week 3 when I wasn't sure if I was gonna stick with them. I wanted to find out who the heck it was that I'd be opening my soul to.

1- Did you find much?

Link to LinkedIn account, which I never checked.

FB account, which I did check out. Handful of photos, including some of kids. More or less cryptic comments by FB friends. Where T went to undergrad school. I imagine there was more there that wasn't public.

*Most interesting discovery was that we both were married on the same month and day! What's that, like a 1 in 133,000 chance?*

2- Did you tell your therapist that you googled him/her?

Not yet. Maybe I should. In fact I was going to tell them, mainly to give them a heads up that they had publicly accessible info on the net.

3- Did you tell them what you came up with and how?

Despite not telling them, I have made one or two (Freudian?) slips, such as asking about their kids in a way that suggested I knew they had kids when they had never told me so, that might have led them to believe that I had visited their FB. Or maybe they themself took precautions.

4- How did they react?

Well, their FB is no longer public. No trace. It doesn't even come up on searches anymore.

5- Do you have any regrets?

Yes and no. By finding out personal info that they hadn't disclosed to me, it has affected, probably negatively, if only slightly, our T-client alliance. On the other hand, since the FB info seemed to indicate that the T was not psychotic, I elected to retain their services when I wasn't sure...
Thanks for this!
Melody_Bells