For those asking to see the assessment, it is posted as an attachment with my initial post in this thread. Just click where it says "attachment" in order to download it.

To everyone who read it already, thanks for reading and for your feedback. I am not sure if most or all therapists write formal assessments like this for every client. As a student (working on a master's degree in mental health counseling), I have to write these, as well as a treatment plan. I expect that I will need to write them when I start to see actual clients too. I just hope that it gets easier and faster. I spent several hours on this one, and I even already knew all of the information. Besides helping the T to organize their ideas and clarify what is going on, assessments and treatment plans would be used by supervisors and probably some insurance companies. Some insurance complanies might accept a reader's digest version. I haven't worked with that aspect at all yet.

I am curious about whether my T has written an assessment and/or treatment plan for me, and how it would compare. I'm too scared to let her see this one, for fear that I might have gotten too much wrong somehow, or that she would disagree with my dx. She hasn't made the same ones, quite. Some of them - and I left out my anxiety dx because they didn't help to account for the problems described, and because I don't notice my anxiety symptoms so much. I don't think that I was hard on myself though. I was thorough and frank and to the point. There is no room for beating around the bush with these.

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