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Originally Posted by lucami
feelings like this and pictures in my head happens quite often lately, but i never tired to hurt or kill myself, when I have this i won't even touch knife, scissors, keep away from balcony.. today i had very stressful day, been to another doc, had panic attack while waiting, I feel sick like I have flu or cold, but he said I'm ok, but looked on my old blood test results and said that seems like I have underactive thyroid *which my gp totally ignored*.. at home i checked thyroid symptoms and it really scared me.. then had another stress and now suddenly I got heavy dd, feel like I would be 'out of my body' and like something is pushing me to jump from balcony again :/ so many triggers all the time eh :c
'the most important person in therapy is you' actually I never felt like that, the last t I've been to seemed bored of what I said and she kicked me everytime out of her office when one hour has passed, even when I asked her if I could stay just for one min longer, just to pull myself together.. but she didn't care that I'm crying and are in pieces, said no and I had to go cry on the street... this made me feel like I don't count at all...
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yea most mental health agencies have a rule that they meet with clients for 50- one hour sessions and then the session is over. on rare occasions some are willing to go beyond that. I have a rule for my own therapy sessions. when ever I start with a new treatment provider I check in with them about what the rules/boundaries are about such things. that way I know that if I may need my therapist for more than 50-one hour to work on something I schedule for a longer session (most mental health agencies in america will schedule 15 minute, half hour, hour and longer if they have been asked ahead of time so that they can make sure no one gets scheduled back to back with those who may need longer time slots.)
suggestion since you know you may need longer sessions check with the treatment provider, not during a moment when you are crying and upset because thats too late for the therapist to reschedule the one waiting already for the appointment right after you. usually a good time to ask for a longer session is at the beginning of your sessions for a future session...
example....
Therapist and I go into her office to begin the session...
therapist hi amanda how are you today.
me well I have something I want to talk to you about but it may take more than how long we have today can we schedule for a longer session for sometime next week...
this way the therapist can look at her schedule and say when they are available for a longer session that wont run into their other clients or their off duty time.