[exoterra]

Do you have any horrible experince with C, T or P that you would like to share???

[Naturefreak]

No , but they probably had a horrible experience seeing me.

[depressedalaskan]

I am with (((Babysteps09))) on this one.

[Amazonmom]

I have a horrendous experience but I do not wish to share. It triggers me big time.

[*freak*]

Pardon my ignorance, but what are Cs, Ts and Ps?

[Seabirdanne]

Originally Posted by *freak*

Pardon my ignorance, but what are Cs, Ts and Ps?

I think it's counselors, therapists, and psychiatrists. But I could be wrong.

[*freak*]

I think you're right, I thought so myself, but wanted to be sure. Thanks

[*freak*]

Anyway, I have loads of horrible experiences with them, but don't feel like sharing if nobody else is going to...

[Pup]

I have had bad experiences with T's and P's. Still do. ;/ Been with CAMHS since I was 7 and still experience bad things.

[Maven]

I'm not sure if this is "horrible," but I was kicked out of a psychiatrist's office once for being honest and saying I hated my aunt and her family because of what they'd done to me. The short version is that they came to stay with us "for a few days," and it became two-and-a-half years, with them doing things to make my OCD worse, bringing roaches into our house, making fun of me, allowing me to use the bathroom once a day, damaging my mother's furniture and walls, bringing their friends over anytime of the day or night and staying well into the wee hours, threatening me, and pulling a lot of other crap. The psychiatrist was religious and told me there was no help for me and kicked me out of his office and house.

((((((((((((((((((exoterra))))))))))))))))))))

I have most definitely had times with T when he did something that made me angry. He's a good T, luckily, so it usually is around not being heard.

Last fall, I was in a BAD place, and I kept trying to tell him, but he wasn't hearing me at all. It got to the point where I was on the verge of being hospitalized before he "got it". And he admitted that looking back, it scared him to see me like that, and he wasn't fully accepting it. Once he did, we could start working on it and I managed to stay out of the hospital.

I would say most of my bad experience with this T are along those lines...things that are horrible when they are happening, but that strengthen our relationship once we work through them

In high school, I had a different kind of horrible experience with a minister who was providing counseling...that ends with us in his bed, and him abandoning me completely. Ick.

((((((((((((((((exoterra)))))))))))))))) Did you have something happen with your T?

[Yoda]

I was with one of my psychiatrist for five years or so following my life trauma that resulted in big time PTSD. For a very long time she was wonderful and so supportive. But then something changed. I don't know if she changed, I changed or both. But for whatever reason I started asking her questions about her changing behaviors toward me. I asked the same question at different sessions and what she said was conflicting with her other statements. I finally met with her and I said I don't trust you anymore because I don't think you are being honest with me now. I think it would be best if I return to the care of my previous psychiatrist (never would have left him but he left the area for awhile).

Well I guess it totally took her by surprise and she started crying. Oh lordy did I feel uncomfortable. I needed some prescriptions to hold me over until my appt with my other doc but I just wanted to get out of that office as quickly as I could so I left without them. That was awful.

[Seabirdanne]

"The Gods have become diseases." -- Carl Jung

[deliquesce]

i have shared these elsewhere, so i don't mind them being here also.

my school counsellor broke confidentiality and told my parents that i was self harming, even though i was over 16 & that guarantees privacy in australia (unless you are at serious risk to self/others etc). i endured a week of bloody noses as a result.

next psychologist i bothered staying with on a long term basis knew about my severe hang up re: privacy, and spent a lot of time working on getting me to trust him. 2 years later he broke confidentiality when he thought i was at risk to self (i wasn't), and sent a crisis team to my house without forewarning. that was in december last year, and i joined PC in the aftermath of that.

for what it's worth, though, i have been seeing pdoc for 5 years now, and he's been nothing but an absolute gentleman. sometimes you find gems.

[pachyderm]

I had a very bad experience with my first therapist. Maybe I was exceptionally naíve and had unusually low self-esteem; if I had not, it might not have affected me so much. I might have been able to counter the suggestions he made to me, or maybe not. It seems to me, maybe particularly at that time, which was quite a while ago, that therapists were maybe not well trained in looking compassionately at themselves to detect signs of "countertransference", so they tended to deny that such a thing could take place. It wasn't part of the image they had of themselves as "helpers" to believe that they could have significant problems themselves. I think awareness of oneself is a very significant factor in whether a therapist or other mental health professional can be successful in treating other people -- and I think there are some who do not have that high a level of self-awareness. I am not sure that is a standard part of the training even now.

[hangingon]

Originally Posted by pachyderm

I had a very bad experience with my first therapist. Maybe I was exceptionally naíve and had unusually low self-esteem; if I had not, it might not have affected me so much. I might have been able to counter the suggestions he made to me, or maybe not. It seems to me, maybe particularly at that time, which was quite a while ago, that therapists were maybe not well trained in looking compassionately at themselves to detect signs of "countertransference", so they tended to deny that such a thing could take place. It wasn't part of the image they had of themselves as "helpers" to believe that they could have significant problems themselves. I think awareness of oneself is a very significant factor in whether a therapist or other mental health professional can be successful in treating other people -- and I think there are some who do not have that high a level of self-awareness. I am not sure that is a standard part of the training even now.

Good Thoughts Pachy,
I am almost finished in the nursing program and one of the biggest things they have drilled into us since the beginning is to know what our feelings and convictions are towards things....to have this self awareness, to know how to recognize it and not let it get in the way of our objectivity when dealing with patients.