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Old Nov 16, 2016, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael W. Harris View Post
Most of the mental health professionals that I saw since 1992 did not know how to question me to find out the traumas that I went through. They did not communicate well enough. At that time I did not know enough myself.

I do not hate my Mother or Brother for abusing me. It was done out of ignorance and bad parenting skills.

Again it is extremely easy to traumatize a newborn to three year old child. Most parents do not even know they are traumatizing their toddlers.

This is an educational issue. I am mad at our religious groups for not helping with this issue.
heres a thought ....maybe instead of waiting for treatment providers to ask you the right questions to find out about the trauma you can tell them yourself...

one time I was very angry at my treatment provider I had then. they just were not diagnosing me right, they just didnt know how to ask me things, they just were this or that.....

I was placing the blame on not getting diagnosed right and not getting the right treatment solely on them.

one day I lost it during therapy. i told my therapist I didnt want to see her anymore, she just wasnt doing it right, she wasnt diagnosing me and wasnt treating me for my problems because she wasnt asking the right questions to find out...

she laughed.. yes she belly laughed ... then she said to me so its all my fault that you are being diagnosed wrong and on treatment plans that are not working... have you ever thought that

... you are the one with the problem so its your responsibility to tell me what is going on and what you need from me. its not my responsibility to think up questions and figure out if those questions are the right ones that will have you telling me about your problems.

....heres something to think about no matter what questions I ask they will be the wrong questions and the wrong way to ask questions if you do not want me to know something. only you can tell me what you want me to know.

if you want me to know what you need, why you are in treatment and about those trauma's you will tell me when you are ready. I can not read your mind and I can not guess which questions to ask that may or may not be the right questions.

boy was i angry for days, how dare she say those things to me. but then I had to go to my medical doctor for a physical problem. the doctor didnt ask me any questions just said hi havent seen you in a while. and I said yea Ive been very healthy but I have this headache, my chest hurts when I breath and Im coughing.... then he did his routine vitals and said to me you have pneumonia. I went how with the right diagnosis, the prescription for the right meds and thought wow how did he do that... answer because I told him what was going on. I didnt wait for him to ask the right questions, i didnt wait for him to read my mind...

I went back to my therapist and appologized. and said you are right... heres why I am coming here and this is what my problems are and this is what I need form you...Amazing I got the right diagnosis and on the right treatment plans.

my point maybe instead of waiting for your treatment providers to figure out what questions are the right ones to ask you that will uncover what you want them to know. you can tell them what you want them to know so that they can get you diagnosed and treated correctly.
Thanks for this!
Nammu