[lancer8]

I'm wondering if anyone else has ever had an experience like this? 10-15 years ago I saw a therapist in another city for many years due to what started as panic attacks and progressed through major depression, bipolar issues, etc. I saw a psychiatrist at her recommendation and ended up hospitalized and on heavy psych meds. Since then I moved to another city after my life was basically ruined by her and many in the psych community I have done pretty well.

Long story short, I decided to give the psch community another chance. I am currently seeing a therapist who is the polar opposite of my old one, and a pdoc who is awesome. I just started depakote XR in addition to paxil and klonopin, which my internist has prescribed to me for the last 10 or so years.

What has happened is I hooked up with a friend of mine from my old city who I had known for years. It turned out my old therapist was also a friend of hers. That triggered all kinds of things and I called the old t to see if we could spend a little time talking. She refused, and was hateful to me. I explained what was going on to my old friend and she was very understanding. Then I noticed my old therapist wasn't posting. Then on Saturday i noticed I had been blocked by my old "friend.

I know it's because of my old therapist. Has anyone else had something like this happen to them? I just decided recently to be more sociable, and then to have this happen has made me question whether it's worth it or not. This has really hurt my feelings.

If anyone has any ideas I'd be truly grateful.

[mazing]

I'm really sorry that you had such a bad experience and your ex-therapist and "friend". This should have never happened. You have done nothing wrong

Please don't give up on being social. It is worth it. There are great people out there who would love to be your friend.

[~Christina]

Sounds like a pretty sucky situation all the way around.. Not much you can do about the old Therapist... Just due to doctor/patient/legal issues.

As far as your old friend, If you have contact with them outside of "facebook land" ask them why they blocked you... They are handling this situation pretty lousy.

My advice don't shy away from being social because of this.

I'm sorry this has happened to you. Happy that you found a good Pdoc and T .. that is priceless

[mixedup_emotions]

Ugh. That sounds quite painful.

Navigating through relationships to determine which are beneficial and which are detrimental is an emotional undertaking. I've found that as I've evolved towards greater health, I've shed a lot of unhealthy relationships. It's difficult to determine whether or not one is worth trying to keep. I'd imagine talking to the friend about it in an honest way would help bring you closer to making that decision.

[lancer8]

Thanks all. I have a similar thread because I posted it twice thinking the first one wasn't going to be posted.

I'm going to try to forget about this through the holidays. It's getting somewhat easier now.

It doesn't speak well, and only confirms what I knew about my old t. She isn't a giving or nice person. To go after me after all of these years is really creepy. I remember how many times she made nasty comments and I never felt comfortable or safe with her. I simply didn't know any better. My old "friend" apparently wasn't much of a friend. Better to know this, but it still hurts my feelings. I will be talking about this with my new t in a couple of weeks when I see her again.