Should I call my therapist or should he call me?

neutrino · 05:56 AM

Well, my therapist just replied and suggested a time for next week. Had to turn it down since I have a mandatory lecture I need to attend at university that time. I'm starting a new class tomorrow and I worry it'll be difficult finding times when both my therapist and I are available. Sometimes I really don't know how I'm supposed to study and be in therapy at the same time.

EDIT: Ok, we found an early morning session that works for us both. Not until the 12th though.

Nightlight · Dec 03, 2013 at 05:59 AM

Sorry, that sounds stressful. Could you email your therapist with the times you will likely be free, or aren't you sure of when that is yet? I've just started a couple of uni courses as well. In some ways I'm lucky that I can take so many by distance through my uni, but distance works out to be quite hard in other ways.

neutrino · Dec 03, 2013 at 06:06 AM

When I turned down the time my therapist suggested he asked what times next week that work for me. I suggested a few times and he picked the one on Thursday. Hopefully I'll know more about what times I can do coming weeks after the class has actually started tomorrow. It just scares me a little bit that I haven't been in therapy for a month (which has been tough), that it's another week and a bit until I get to see my therapist and then it'll soon be time for Christmas break and I'll have to handle things completely on my own again.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to complain. This just worries me and I just wanted to tell someone. Hope that's ok.

EDIT: May I ask what you're studying by the way?

Nightlight · Dec 03, 2013 at 06:24 AM

That's a really understandable worry. I'm having to scale back because I can't afford weekly sessions, then I'll have a three week Christmas break and then maybe one session before another three week/four week break, I think. I'm not looking forward to that at all.

My major is in psychology, which I really love. We don't have many courses to choose from in our current summer semester (most students don't study during the summer semester here), so I'm currently taking a philosophy course and a medical anthropology course. How about you?

neutrino · Dec 03, 2013 at 07:27 AM

I understand you're not looking forward to the breaks. Just thinking about the coming break makes me very worried.

Anyway, psychology sounds nice. I like psychology. It's interesting. Have you read any books you like that someone who's not studying psychology but still thinks it very interesting (like me) could read? Are all your classes by distance/online or are you taking classes at the university as well?

I'm studying/majoring in biomedicine. Had the final exam in my biochemistry class today and the class that starts tomorrow is a class in anatomy, which I'm looking forward to.

Nightlight · Dec 03, 2013 at 08:12 AM

My university is spread out over the country and most of the papers in my major can only be taken internally in other parts of the country, so I'm mostly distance. I started off with only internal papers though (and I find it hard to keep up the same motivation with everything by distance). Hmm, I'm not sure about a good book to recommend as I've mostly stuck with text books, and the psych ones are honestly all pretty easy to dip into. I don't have a science background at all, but I've just finished a biological psychology course...and I'm trying not to think too much about the exam result which are just about due.

I guess at least studying is a little bit distracting during the therapy breaks. Funnily enough, my therapist often disappears around exam time. What are our therapist thinking, taking multiple weeks off just before or just after the Christmas break!

neutrino · Dec 03, 2013 at 08:25 AM

Okay, cool. Good luck on the exam!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nightlight

What are our therapist thinking, taking multiple weeks off just before or just after the Christmas break!

No idea. But they deserve breaks too I guess.

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Nightlight Grand Poohbah Member Since Mar 2010 Location: On the edge Posts: 1,782 14	Dec 03, 2013 at 05:59 AM #42 Sorry, that sounds stressful. Could you email your therapist with the times you will likely be free, or aren't you sure of when that is yet? I've just started a couple of uni courses as well. In some ways I'm lucky that I can take so many by distance through my uni, but distance works out to be quite hard in other ways.
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