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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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I agree. I have seen portions of my therapy notes, but ALWAYS they were gone over WITH the therapist right there to explain the context of what I was reading. Without that contextual factor, the potential for misunderstanding and misinterpretation is pretty high. Because they are notes, therapists get into their own sort of shorthand for what they are noting. They understand why they wrote them the way they did. You have to understand that those notes are often written after the session and are a quick summary/reference rather than a detailed account of sessions. They aren't scripted word-for-word, so the person who actually takes the notes will need to be there to explain their notes.