[madisgram]

my therapist told me early on "my therapy belonged to me." meaning what i put in it is what i'd pull out. it's a phenomenom that we often don't really discuss what's really going on with us. it's too easy to just say, "i'm fine" to a T. then we leave with that huge sack on our back we brought to the appointment. while reading this article i felt all of us with MI could heed this sage advice and get real with our therapists and post docs.

....I have asked thousands of people with bipolar disorder if they lie to their doctors and therapists. Most say they either lie outright or leave important information out. We call it "presenting well." We are subconsciously (or consciously) trying to pass the test. We have been trained to seek the approval of the tester so much that we present the answers that we think are going to pass instead of what is true for us. We present a different person than who we really are. Instead of a clear assessment, we end up treating an imaginary person in ways that may be detrimental to our real needs....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-wo..._b_909762.html

Many posters at Psyche Central confirm Mr.Wootton's premise.

[Bella01]

How true that is! I don't want to disappoint my T so sometimes I make it sound better than it really is.

[Perna]

I actually have a book plotted/started that's titled, "That's Okay, I'm Fine" that I was going to write my T while she was away for a couple months before we terminated, to mirror our 18 years in therapy together and what I'd learned, etc.

[Miss Laura]

This is me down to a tee!!!

I actually showed my Support Worker this morning and he smirked and said "that's you to a tee alright". My catchphrase "I'm fine" has haunted me since I was in High School. He said but only I can tell them what is really going on they are not mind readers. Sometimes I wish they were so I didn't need to talk. He also said he thinks it's also to do with me still needing to come to terms with my diagnosis. Which is also true to a degree... I think