I was wrong....

They do read through this forum. I will no longer be posting. Just reading.

You mean your T told you that he or she read your posts on PC? Just wondering. Is that such a bad thing? We're supposed to be able to tell our Ts everything. Or is it some other people who are reading your posts?

I'm sorry if you won't be posting. You can still send PM's and receive them, if you want.

Do you mean therapists? What difference does it make?

WHat happened?

i am always thinking my T reads this because she gets so close to responding to what i talk about here. why is it a problem if your T reads here. i know for me it would help

T told me that she is not on any online forums and wouldn't even know how to find them if she wanted to. She's only 62 but I imagine that she is the pen and paper letter writer type versus the email type. She probably also has really pretty handwriting and takes her time to pick out just the right stationary and envelopes too.

Anyway, how do you know or what makes you suspect?

GOOD!!! hopefully some of them will get a clue about clients!

Don't let it put you off, just don't write anything that identifies you.

Heh. Over a period of time, I think I might be able to identify a client. Especially if something notable happened in a session.

Still.. I agree that it might actually be a GOOD thing. It would be a major ethical no-no for a T to use assumed-private information in a negative manner.

are you a therapist Mapleton?

Oh, no! (I think the line is, "but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night")



I guess I'm just a bit cynical, since forever, and maybe the NSA scandal has something to do with it.

I wish I WAS a therapist. To have done that then I'd have already solved my edu/vocational issues.

I personally do not think it is a good thing. Moodswing, can you share how you know this? Did your therapist say he reads the forum? This possibility actually freaks me out (as I think it does some others as well), it would be helpful to know where this has come from, if you're able to share.

I am sure a few people on here might be memorable enough or give enough explicit detail to be known - but I really do believe most of us are just not all that unique and blend in. Read back a year or so - the same type issues, the same positions, and yet different posters. I do not believe the one I see could or would figure out it was me even if I told her my user name, put the site on her ipad, and pulled it up and pointed my posts out. And even if she did, I have said everything to her that I have said here anyway (not as in "I wrote x on a forum last night" but in a general what I tell the woman at the appointment every week sort of way)

We're all going to ask our T's about this, this week, and they'll all reassure us that they haven't been paying attention to us, "so don't worry about it"

Mine can barely find her way around her cellphone nevermind the internet lol

I used to think this. Then I realised I would sometimes mention something as a throwaway line in T then expand on it here. My T would pick it up next time and I'd feel guilty as sometimes I mention things on here that I want to go into deeper in T, but T beats me to the punch and magically brings it up. But in reality its only because I've mentioned it in passing or alluded to it or something in my sessions.

Cuz she wrote something on here and then the t called shortly after. Nobody is getting A pluses in Reading and Comprehension THIS semester!! I think it was just a coincidence tho. Really truly.

If my T read certain posts, then she would know who I was, but I'm sure that my T never goes on here. She's a working mom of two young children. I'm sure she's not moonlighting on psychcentral trying to spot clients.

I would die if my T came on here because it would be so easy to tell it is me. I would also be sort of angry if she was creeping on my posts.

That would be hard...because I have been writing about what I can't tell my T.

However, I am in school to become one...though I wouldn't ever come to a site like this to find a client. If I accidentally stumbled upon one, I would probably decide that it was time for me to leave the site -- clients need places to feel safe outside of therapy sessions. I would hate to ever take that away from someone.

Are you referring to the OP?

Where do they find the time??? Unless they know my user name (that no one knows to my knowledge) they'd have to read an awful lot to find out who I am. But if they did, I'm very identifiable from what I've written.
I'm not questioning you Maple. I don't doubt it happens. I wonder about the priorities and choice of time. On the other hand, maybe they are really devoted and come here and just stumbled on a client.

Are you trying to get an A minus?! J/k! Yes. I dont recall which thread. Funny what stopdog said, about logging t on and showing your exact posts - I've tried that, and it's really a lot more hassle than you think. We all shortcut our way onto here, but if you're coming in cold, it's a PITA.

I'm sorry, Moodswing What a horrible realisation to make.

I'm sorry to hear this.

I know my T doesn't read PC. He doesn't have time.

I have to go with Hankster here, this was probably just a very weird coincidence. Heck, I know I have family members on here, but we don't share user names to keep our anonymity, I'll think surely this is so-and-so, but look at the profile only to find there's no possible way.

We all like to feel our struggles are unique, and while all do not share the same exact struggles, their similarities and solutions are similar.