"what about bob" ...great movie...makes me laugh every time i see it.

anyway...i can't e mail my t...she never offered and i never asked...i can call and leave messages which i do. sometimes i ask for a call back and sometimes i don't. some calls are just a heads up call...about what is going on...not even a crisis thing sometimes not even about what we talk about but what is going on in my life outside of therapy...or sometimes just to wish her a happy holiday or the like.

when i do call about something therapy belated she will call me back and we can talk...sometimes it is between session so time is limited others not. if it is an emergency then i can call an emergency number and get a therapist who will reach her and she will then call me...altho i will say the few times i did call it the results with the responding t were a little scary (when i am in crisis it is hard for me to be clear and explain things and the the DID comes out in full force which makes it worse..and things snowball...last time i called i got quite possibly the worlds worst therapist...i wouldn't have told her if i planned to blow up the owrld much less anything else...just call my t damn it!)

initially i went for 1 session a week...she was the one who suggested a double session a week after consulting other t who dealt with DID... and that has worked wonders for me. also when we have had a few really rough times she has been able to schedule additional appt's for us during the week which helped us out.

plus when we were hospitalized each time she came to visit us and she brought along a PB&j sandwich for our child alter. she also helped smooth along the inital intake thru the ER as well as calling the "bin" before our first trip to find out exactly what would occur while we were ther so she could prepare us.

our first t was less than ethical. this one has helped us out a tremendous amount andthere are no words for our gratitude. sure she isn't perfect and has made some errors...but hey so have we...

plus..she has said that we have given her the chance to learn...we are the first patient with our diagnosis that she has treated and she said she welcomes the chance to do so...she calls it a nice change from her usual patients...kind of makes her feel good too.