[sweepy62]

So as you know therapy and the therapeutic relationship has been questionable lately. Today I started by asking why she never returned my call. She said she had been out of the office for 3 days on a S. A. conference , and when she got back, there were just ten new messages.

Mine was not there, she says it resets after so many messages, so she was very apologetic .

2. I expressed, that I feel like I'm in so much turmoil due to the stressors and schedule change, depression, med dose change.

3. Told her that I have lost connection with her, and I did not feel comfortable with her. And I wanted to get that connection back.

She said, she has felt that I drifted from her and its partly her fault and the facilities for not having enough therapists. She told me she is going to work on getting our connection back and breaking down some walls.

3. The art festival : she asked me how it was for me, I said it was wonderful , I looked away, she said I'm sorry I should have told you I was affiliated with the art festival . The band that you were applauding to. Are my friends.


As far as the schedule she said it would be about month or two.

We spoke of my binge drinking this weekend .

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[ThisWayOut]

wow, sounds tough, but that you were able to voice some important stuff...
I'd be quite frustrated with the vm thing if i were her though... that's pretty crappy for a therapist's office...

[AustenFan]

Did you ask her why she lied about having never heard of the art festival?

[granite1]

didn't she say it would be a few months last time you asked

She got it very very wrong with the arts festival thing, I don't know what she hoped to achieve by lying. It must have crossed her mind that you might see her there and might be hurt. I'm glad she was apologetic though. Hopefully that's a sign she can grow and learn from her errors and be a better T to you because you deserve better treatment than you've had recently.

[guilloche]

I'm curious too if you were able to ask WHY she lied about the festival? It seems like such a stupid thing to lie about... I'm curious if she had a response.

It does sound productive though (although I don't get the thing about the messages resetting - that seems like a really bad phone system for a therapist to have, as it could result in her losing *urgent* messages)... did you feel like it was? Did you get what you needed from her?

And... oh my gosh, please tell me you didn't mean it would be a month before you see her again? That's not right, right?

[HazelGirl]

It does seem rather stupid to lie about the festival. We all make mistakes, but that was a fairly thick-headed one.

[sweepy62]

Originally Posted by granite1

didn't she say it would be a few months last time you asked

yep, but she says she will not let me down to please have faith in her so lets see.

[sweepy62]

Originally Posted by ThisWayOut

wow, sounds tough, but that you were able to voice some important stuff...
I'd be quite frustrated with the vm thing if i were her though... that's pretty crappy for a therapist's office...

I didnt understand the resetting either, but she told me the time to call when she usually would pick up the phone.

[sweepy62]

Originally Posted by AustenFan

Did you ask her why she lied about having never heard of the art festival?

She said she is affiiated with them but it was bad judgement on her part, she apologized and disclosed some stuff.

[sweepy62]

Originally Posted by guilloche

I'm curious too if you were able to ask WHY she lied about the festival? It seems like such a stupid thing to lie about... I'm curious if she had a response.

It does sound productive though (although I don't get the thing about the messages resetting - that seems like a really bad phone system for a therapist to have, as it could result in her losing *urgent* messages)... did you feel like it was? Did you get what you needed from her?

And... oh my gosh, please tell me you didn't mean it would be a month before you see her again? That's not right, right?

lol my next apt is 10/3 then 10/15

I'm glad she 'confessed' Sweepy sorry

[sweepy62]

Yes , she has been honest in the past. She apologized and disclosed stuff pertaining to the event and her personal life, as for me I was not concentrating much. I been so down the past couple of weeks, I mean depressed and my pdoc decreased my antipsychotic . I took it upon myself 4 days ago to increase my ad from 100 mg to 200 mg and have 2 redbull a day. To say the least , I'm not sluggish anymore , yet I feel edgy hypo manic lol.

My t asked about it. I told her about my increase. I'm going back to my reg dose.

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