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Old Feb 14, 2014, 03:17 PM
Yearning0723 Yearning0723 is offline
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Originally Posted by willowbrook View Post
I sent an email to Pdoc outlining how bad my depression had gotten. I'd only seen him in session a few days ago, and we went over it a little bit then, but I was really disconnected because of the heat we've been having here and I didn't feel like I really got across how bad things actually are at the moment. So I decided to email him notes for our next session early, to give him time to read them, and I admitted that not only was the depression more than a little bad, I'd been feeling more and more suicidal and had actually had a spontaneous plan/urge come over me in a disassociative state that I almost ended up carrying out.

Now I feel like I've just bothered him for no reason. He's already copping enough grief over having me as a longer term patient than what the stupid Government overseers of the clinic think, and reading back through the email I just feel like I'm whining about a whole lot of nothing and adding to his already busy workload and stress. I know it's part of his job, and he needs to know this sort of info, I just feel bad for bothering him. My depression is making me feel like a huge burden to everyone right now, this is just feeding into that.

I think you've hit the nail right on the head here, if you'll excuse the cliché. Your depression is making you feel like a huge burden. That isn't actually a reflection of reality. Your pdoc does need this information, and if he felt like you were "bothering him for no reason," it would be his responsibility to tell you, and not your responsibility to worry about it. So I would suggest you cut yourself some slack and try to be kind to yourself. You are feeling really awful right now and you're doing what you think is best for you. If he has a problem with it, he'll tell you. But until then, there's no need to worry.
Thanks for this!
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