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Originally Posted by boredporcupine
Other people have been really helpful, but can I just put a plug in here for not reading your own therapy notes? They are really intended for the T and/or insurance providers, not for you, and they usually contain a lot of jargon which could easily lead to misunderstandings. If you want to know something about how your T understands you, it's better to just ask and then they can put their thoughts into language a normal person can decipher!
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Yeah, I don't think I'd want to read my own therapy notes!
The other thing is, she might not take notes in a particularly organized way, so the "magical thinking" part might not be related to what she wrote it next to. Like when I would take notes for class, for example, I would sometimes write a thought I had on the page that might not be related to what I was taking notes on at that moment (part of why I never let people borrow my notes--they wouldn't make sense!)
This makes me think of an episode of Monk, where his T left his notepad sitting there when he left the room, and Monk saw he'd written the word "Hopeless." So Monk got all depressed, thinking the T thought he was a hopeless case. But when he finally asked the T about it, it wasn't what T meant at all (I forget what it meant).