How many of you have read your own file?

No problem, I am confused anyway

Yes I DID! I need to read more though! You see once upon a time in my shrinks private practice i sat in the waiting room curiously bored! So (if you so not know already I am so curious my nickname should be curioussarah116 ) I slipped around the corner to the one room where my file was while Psychologist was busy talking about me I took one of my shaky red fingernails and with much curiosity unclipped the paper clip to behold THE GOLDEN JACKPOT! Wow!, I felt like I won the lottery after reading some of it! She even kept some of my letters and journal pages copied! But there was also notes and stuff, insurance papers. I suggest you people go for it this quote is always helpful! "It is better to feel afraid then sit back wishing you did it!" That is so true, trust me! You really do have to challenge yourself! Good luck to you all!

Not the hospitals I have gone to. I have lived here in this state for 13 years and my medical and mental health records including all the hospitals I have been seen in is still available. DHS got copies of my files dating back to the 1980's when my child went into foster care in 2001 to varify if I had any other children and what my mental problems were back then and so on.

They were and are still available just on computer disks now instead of the paper files.

I will probably ask for my file about a month or so after the end of the relationship. My agency claims that they can limit access during the relationship and I will want to take my time at digesting it if it is heavy or anything. I prefer to have the T met out the information in a more tactful and gradual way during the relationship. This is only my third T.
I saw a psychologist in college but I am pretty sure that the file does not exist anymore because that was in 1993 and I saw my next T in 2005. So she wasn't too interested in where the psychologist was. I just told her his opinion. He popped up with it during a session without me even asking him. I never really fully considered the idea that he might try to diagnose me with something! I guess I should have figured on that part. Ts seem to like to "give me a mental disorder." I joke that it is the Ts who give us the mental disorders. We just display the symptoms before that. HEHE. I sometimes joke that he accused me of having a mental disorder. Wellll, I better get to bed or wont want to get up at all tomorrow.