Brneyedgrl,

when I changed therapists I did not want the new one to have the information from the old and he did not suggest it was necessary. He started over from scratch and I am glad we did. His way was different and much better. More straight forward, chronological, and got to the root of things much faster. The old one and I rambled forward in a haphazard fashion that i felt was going nowhere. I would wait to see what the new one suggests.

I went in as an emergency so I was everywhere. I had no agenda and the therapist took over. Good thing. I was too upset to do anything but react and he knew it.

If you have particular things you want to address then I suggest making a list to make sure you don't walk in there and forget something. I am so bad about that. I have even just handed over the list. I have read the list. I have emailed the list in advance. Think about things you would like to talk about, goals you might want. See if any of these are things you might can talk about. For me it was so hard. Hard to talk to him. I just wanted initially to see if he would confirm the first therapists dx and how much different he was and if he was a better fit for me. And he was. We just clicked. The very difficult things I knew somewhere down the road I would need to talk about I felt like I could with him whereas with the first one I knew I never would go there with her.

Hope this helps.

If I think of more I will add them. Good luck.

fragmented