Thanks. Yes, I hope the nurse will agree on how I feel about our working alliance and that she realises that putting two people together wonīt always result in a good match.
Iīm though afraid that sheīll use my feedback in a negative way, they easily see it as not being compliant and just wanting to make a fuss about things. But I wrote in my comments to her that I donīt feel therapeutically "held" and that I donīt feel validated, nor emotionally understood by her. I didnīt mention anything about her as a person and I didnīt make any references to something she said or did, I just wrote about how I feel about our work together.
But Iīve already noticed, thatīs partly why I decided to send her the WAI form and my comments, that she has a tendency to explain me being a patient within psychiatry is because of me. She doesnīt acknowledge the fact that a majority of people think psychiatry lacks resources and a solid way of working with patients.
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Originally Posted by Anne2.0
I could see how it might turn out that this nurse may retaliate for what she sees as negative feedback.
On the other hand, as long as you've been posting here, it seems to me that you have repeatedly not told your therapists how things are going, or given them the negative feedback you've shared here. You've often said, when others suggested you share it, that you couldn't or shouldn't or wouldn't do that for one reason or another.
From my perspective, this represents progress for you, to be honest about the "alliance" or feelings to your mental health providers. It's possible that this nurse also feels the alliance is bad but your willingness to acknowledge it may be perceived in the way I do and may actually improve your prospects for therapy. One reason she may have asked for this feedback (and I think it's unlikely that someone would ask if she's truly afraid of the report) is because she thinks it might help her either help you better or might help her move you along to another provider.
Sometimes the worst possible scenario doesn't occur, and things and people aren't always perfectly predictable. On the other hand, our expectations about people and events can shape how things turn out, aka "self fulfilling prophesy."
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