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Originally Posted by SummerTime12
Thank you all very much for taking the time to respond. I do like your idea satsuma (to ask what would lead him to force hospitalization on a patient). I'll ask him that for sure next session. Also LonesomeTonight, you make a good point that the date makes a big difference.. I guess he'd probably realize it wouldn't do much good for me to be inpatient right now, when I'm not even planning for right now. I guess I worry that sharing this info with him will come across as manipulative or attention-seeking. Really I'm just overwhelmed keeping it to myself
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When I first started therapy, I used to worry that by telling things to my T I was "just attention-seeking". (Yeah, that's what I had been told in my previous experience by others...) My T responded something along the lines of "How can you be attention-seeking by saying these things here? I'm just a person in a room."
Slightly strange way to put it, but it helped me and it stuck with me - I often thought of that. Why would I tell these things in the "secret" of therapy, to a person in a room who will never repeat it, if it was attention-seeking?