[puzzclar]

My t said that if I continue done this path that I am on, I'll end up back in the hospital! I'm a bit mad but he has been right on a lot of things. So has your t ever made a prediction?

[nottrustin]

I am not sure if it is a prediction. However, she has voiced concerns about things. I recently found information about my fathers family that had abandoned him as a tween. It would allow me to start a search for my grandparents. Having also been abandoned as a tween my father. I WANT to search for them (due to age the chances they would be alive a almost nil) I do have some concerns of finding painful information so I talked about it briefly with T. She told me while she will support me in whatever I choose to do she wishes I would hold off. She fears that I will become consumed with the search which could consume a lot of what is left of my kid's summer. Also she fears I would become hurt by the whole thing and my mood might spiral downwards which again would effect my kids and our summer. She knows when it comes to my kids I carry a lot of guilt and if this has a negative effect on my kids I will beat myself up over it. She is right about all this but I am so drawn by what good might come of it...right now I have agreed to hold off and I/we will try to figure out why it is so important now. It ticks me off that she is right sometimes but I also know it is because she cares and hates to see me in pain...

[HowDoYouFeelMeow?]

Yes. My exT from high school predicted that when I got to college I would "flip out" and not succeed. Well, she was wrong. My faculty members voted me the outstanding senior, I am finishing my doctorate, and have accepted a professor position at a very reputable school. Eff her and her prediction.

[puzzclar]

I hope mine is wrong too but I keep thinking he us right. Maybe I should apply for disability. .. not sure what to do.

[gayleggg]

Mine made the prediction that my mood would improve when spring got here. He was wrong all I seem to get is worse. So much for his predictions.

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My ex therapist said I would probably kill myself one day. Well, I am doing much better since he is out of my life and I have no plans of doing that. Idiotic jerk.

[growlycat]

I find those willing to give "predictions" actually have an axe to grind.

No. We discuss what's going on, not what may go on.

[puzzclar]

I almost feel like its going to happen so I'm making changes to not have that happen.... I hope this works.

[stopdog]

She has said she did not think a family member would do something I thought they would do.
The family member acted as I predicted. I no longer let her talk when I am telling her about those sorts of things. She has never been correct.

My first t made lots of predictions and they were all negative. I was severly anorexic and a cutter for a very long time. She used to tell my that my cutting would definitely kill me, i would be in a wheelchair by the time i was forty, and that anorexia was going to kill me.
Well i am now over forty, no longe cutting, and i am quite alive and well and very healthy and recovered for 7 years.

[puzzclar]

But did the predictions help anyone?

I'm not sure I'd call them predictions for me. More like there were instances where he had seen me go down a very similar road before so he could see the train wreck about to happen. He reminded me of what had occurred previously and made recommendations based on a fairly predictable pattern. He was right and probably saved my life more than once this way.

[PinkFlamingo99]

My ex-T said if I didn't "get over" my abandonment fear, I would ruin our "relationship."

[atisketatasket]

The only time mine has gotten close to predicting something, it was to agree with a prediction I had made. From this thread it sounds like non-prediction is the ideal approach.

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[puzzclar]

Its lead to some questions as to if that tactic is useful. So I confronted him today about it and it helped me to realize that I'm headed for a depression episode. ... oh wait I am here already.

[Raging Quiet]

She said I would get pregnant with the IVF; she was right.