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Originally Posted by WanderingBark
I remember a particularly difficult session a few months ago when T asked why I started therapy. I said I wanted to be evaluated for depression especially since I know it can be genetic and one of my parents has bi-polar borderline personality disorder. T replied saying that I could have googled the symptoms and made my own conclusion so he asked again what was the real reason I came to therapy to which I didn't have an answer.
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This would make me feel very angry, dismissed and betrayed. What is that even? WT actual F? He's so smart that he can actually divine your truest motives in spite of how cunningly you've concealed them from him? You said you thought you were depressed and you wanted help. That seems like a perfectly legitimate entire reason to seek therapy. Also: you could have googled the symptoms? I can google the symptoms of TB but still not be sure if I have it. And if I do have it, googling isn't going to make me feel a lot better.
Okay. Perhaps my outrage is over the top but that pisses me right off. I would tell him to google where the sun don't shine and let him know I might come back when he figures out the real reason he's being such an asshole. But that's me.