How much do you like your current pdoc and therapist?

Do you like your current pdoc and your current therapist (if you have one)? Why or why not?

How much do you like them? Have you ever liked them so much that you fantasized about having a relationship with them?

I like my current therapist. He's pretty cool. He's also around my age (I'm 24 and he's about 30).

My current pdoc, however... Not a fan! He needs to listen more.

I also disliked my old therapist. She was pretty bad. I've never fantasized about any of them, though.

I like them both really well.
My pdoc is 72 so no fantasies about him....altho i have seen him for 22 years.
My current T is female and 65 so no fantasies there either.

I did have a young male T when I was young, but he was sort of a nerd so no fantasies there. I am so desperate for someone to talk to I don't pay any attention to them in a romantic way.

I just started seeing her about a month ago, and I could tell from the first meeting that this is going to work. That initial meeting, her advice pretty much got rid of one of my cognitive distortions so easily. It was bizarre! I went earlier today and it is a good relationship thus far. But umm, I don't swing that way

I like my current pdoc very much...the place she works for, not so much...nope no fantasy

My current T is great...but again he's my T so no fantasy

I've never fantasize about my providers, to be fair I have a hard time getting close to people and trusting.

As far as my pdoc...that's still debatable. We communicate mostly through the healthcare email system (whatever it's called). I've had her for a few months and have seen her twice. She also responds to questions very quickly, usually the next day. With this rocky period I'm going through it's nice that I don't have to go into the office every single time and make a copay. But I'm still a little unstable, so we'll see how this relationship goes.

I love my pdoc and t. I have never had any fantasies about having a relationship of any kind with them.

I like both my pdoc and T... No fantasies here either

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Now that I think of it, I *have* fantasized about having a friendship with my therapist. He likes many of the same things I do, and it's rare for me to come across someone like that. I've only ever come across 1 other person like that, and he was a complete weirdo. (He would put his hands over his mouth and make weird hissing sounds while whispering stuff to himself. I wondered why he did it, so I would ask, "Did you say something? Sorry, I didn't catch that." Then he'd stop the weird whispering and hissing. I think it was a compulsion... but he also followed me around everywhere, so that was pretty weird.)

Have you ever fantasized about a friendship?

Right now I'm in IOP so I'm not seeing my regular therapist. However I LOVE my therapist in the program. I wish she accepted insurance so I could see her on the outside. But my outside therapist is really good too. She's able to help me reframe my negative thinking.

My pdoc...well she's actually a nurse practitioner. Which isn't so bad. I do like her, she's very nice and does listen, the only thing is she's very "by the book" and doesn't like to experiment. I'm a non traditional patient. I don't respond to traditional methods of treatment. It took forever to convince her to let me try emsam. And now that it's causing insomnia she wants me to quit after just three weeks. She doesn't take my depression serious enough - she kept telling me the Wellbutrin was working even though I was flat and suicidal in her office. She also said the ECT should be enough but I know from experience that it's not. She seems to forget past experiences. But she's nice enough.

I'm not sure she'll be able to continue seeing me on an outpatient basis. If not I need to find a new pdoc. I could go back to my old one but I'd rather not. She's really good but sort of short tempered. Doesn't like to listen to my opinion. And she hospitalized me at the drop of a hat. So even though she's good I'd like to try to find someone else. I just don't know how long it's going to take.

Not that I can think of. Pretty much all, if not most of my pdocs have been older males, so that would be weird. As far as a friendship with my T...my new one is probably slightly older than me, but she is very helpful in a therapist kind of way, but not in a let's be friends kind of way (I hope that made sense). I don't really know anything about her, when I go to my sessions, I talk, and talk, and talk...
My last one was an older male, but his psychodynamic therapy just wasn't working for me. I work better with some good 'ol CBT, and so I think this will be better.

Love love love my psychologist.

She's easy to talk to and knows me well. I've been with her for a year.

My pdoc is okay. A little old school but I'm on meds that have stabilised me so no complaints.

Really like my pdoc, he's smart, keeps up with research studies, and is really kind. And really like my t, too. Next time I see her, in about 3 weeks, we'll talk about a therapy termination plan, because I'm getting to a place where my life is more balanced, and I'm able to cope (more of the time) and even thrive (some of the time).

I love my pdoc and t!

Pdoc is an older Egyptian gentleman who listens and I believe truly cares and t
Is about ten years older than me and we click well and she seems to care too!

Old psychiatrist, hell no after five or more years. One now is great, and medications work. No psychologist due to cost.

Hate my Pdoc. She pushed my husband into insisting I have multiple outpatient ECT. I was a lot better and didn't want or need more.
I could tell what it was doing to my brain. Long and short term memory did not come back as promised.
I'll never willingly have ECT again. Very bad for me.
I also have a goal to never ip again. This Pdoc is from hospital and puts me back in at every opportunity.
One reason I extended my CR stay. I'm doing much better here. But I'm on her reccomended Meds. So we will see in May. Hope for new Pdoc.

I have the best doc and T and feel very thankful for this. In the past I have had a lot of awful, damaging 'help' so it is such a relief to finally find the right clinicians. My T is highly experienced and can read me well to guide me in the right direction. I have been seeing him for nearly 6 years and doubt I would be here without him. No fantasies about him though. My pdoc is also amazing. He is the first pdoc I have really trusted as he has proven himself to be genuinely caring and brilliant at his job. For years I went through crap pdoc and T, one after the other, and I was drowning. Now I am stable more often than ever before.

Don't have a T. New shrink. Not much to say.

I lucked up with a first try for both my pdoc and my t. I like both of them. A few months ago, I would have said they were not good listeners. After reflection I realized that I did not always go in to their offices sharing everything I needed to share. I would allow us to talk about other topics and miss the topic that I came in to discuss. Since I have made a conscious effort to be more open with what I needed to talk about, things are much better. They both listen and take my feelings and goals into consideration. My pdoc is vocal about what he feels needs to be done to manage my illness, but he supports the decisions that I make. He always give options and goes over the pros and cons. The only time I don't like my pdoc is when I am symptomatic and wanting to come off meds and he knows I am symptomatic and recommends a change in meds. Both my T and my pdoc are 20 to 25 years older than I am. No crushes here.

I have a case manager that I talk to on the phone. I sometimes wish we'd met a different way. I think we could have been good friends.

I'm inbetween pdocs right now. My very much recent one was awful. I fantasize about taking a **** on her car. That's as far as fantasies concerning her go. Lol.

My pdoc is a ****, but he's REALLY good. He always listens to me and "gets" me and is really good with meds. But he's full of himself and a jerk.

My T however.. I like that man.