I agree with Sunrise on this. The only reason I requested my records was because of my fears about what my husband might be able to use regarding custody if we left.

It was an over-reaction on my part. I called my T the next day and told him why I had done this. He was like 'oh okay'...it had nothing to do with him and everything to do with my own fears.

T and I discussed it next session and I told him that it doesn't matter what is in my record or not. I don't need to know about it. Here is why I didn't read further and ended up shredding the rest...

"the patient presented as a somewhat overweight white female"...now I was overweight back then. It wasn't a lie but I was like 'how could he say that about me'....see we just don't need to know these things. So, I didn't go further.

Actually though, he said he doesn't write much in the record. He just checks off boxes of themes discussed. So, I'm not missing anything anyway...

One time though, I wrote him a six page letter and I wonder where that was filed...giggle. It's okay, it is his to have.