Does you T know you're here?

Why would it matter even if the therapist did recognize you or disapprove?

Yes my T knows. I mention that I come here very often. It came up because I told her about it. I sometimes share things I've posted here or tell her about great ideas I've seen here or fears that have been stirred up here. I told her I was worried she would be browsing the forum searching for my posts. She said that she wants this site to be the support I need and not have me worried she is reading here. I have not told her my name on here and I try to not give to many details when I post. She does have two young kids and a husband and she always says how busy her life is so I highly doubt she would be on here reading often.

This site ends up near the top search results on Google when you search for anything mental health related so I assume a lot of T's have to know about this site. Have I ever mentioned it to mine? Nope and I don't plan on it either, this forum is very helpful but I have posted on things I'm not comfortable discussing in therapy yet and I will talk about it when I'm ready to and I don't want my T to know or figure out who I am on here.

I actually printed out one of my threads from here once to show my T (used sharpie to black out other people's names!). So she knows I'm here. I doubt she visits. She's said recently maybe I should be here less often because it makes me think about things too much. But I find it helps. Typing things out on here definitely does. Feedback is generally helpful but can occasionally hurt.

I've mentioned to my marriage counselor that I'm on here. He's more computer-savvy, so I'm more concerned he'd be on here. I doubt I'd be too hard to find once he went into the Psychotherapy thread, since not many people are on here talking about their marriage counselor. And certainly not about transference for their MC. Plus dates and things would match up. I'd rather think he doesn't read here though, since sometimes I post things when I'm in a particularly raw state, so they're rather unfiltered. (Then there are times I would want him to read my unfiltered thoughts, to help him understand better what's going on in my head and how important he is to me.)

My T doesn't know but only because it hasn't come up. I doubt she would have a reaction. She's talked about this site a couple times before just not the forums. However I don't think she would recognize me on here

No, my t is not a computer or internet guy.

No, she's too busy with her life to care about what I read or where I go on the internet.

No, not yet. It might come out at some point but, so far, it has not come up.

Hi. My T knows I'm here. When I decided to come clean about something, I discovered I was totally incapable of vocalising it. So I got my phone out, found my "Dear T....." post, and let him read that.

There have been severe consequences of WHAT I told him, but nothing regarding me posting here. I do sometimes wonder if he looks me up at all, but I doubt it. He wouldn't be able to resist bringing it up in session

No, she doesn't know and I believe if she did, it'd be a non-issue. I think her bigger concern would be the classical music forum I frequent because I have dealt with a compulsive spending problem related almost exclusively to music

I hope he doesn't. I hope he's too busy doing other stuff.

Nope. If she asked I would tell her, but there's been no need to bring it up

T knows I'm on a mental health forum, but not on which one. And I think (and hope) she assumes I'm on one in my native language.

He doesn't but then again he barely knows what the internet is...

Yes she knows I am here on Psych Central but I'm not sure if she has ever looked at the site. I'm sure she doesn't know who I am here, only because she wouldn't spend the time to try to figure out who I am here, but if she did try it wouldn't be hard for her to tell who I really am

There is so much more I'd like to discuss on here, but I'm quite inhibited because of the thought that my T might recognise me. I've never mentioned this site to her.

Seriously - how would it matter if the therapist did (even if my belief that we have posters from all over the world and posts/posters tend to clump into groups that are pretty much the same is not accurate)

This probably relates to my reason for choosing to go to therapy. After my sessions I feel that I would like to hide under a blanket because I have let her 'see' me. My survival strategy as a child, in the face of a mother who humiliated me was to set my face like stone and never allow her to 'see' me.

No way, and I doubt I'd ever tell her, but with two small children and a husband and a full-time practice, I highly doubt she'd ever just browse on here for *fun.*

I am also weird and was proud of myself because I told my T about a movie I liked. In my last therapy, I never talked about books or movies or anything in the outside world that I liked and enjoyed, no music, nothing. I was always so afraid of being judged for my enjoyments. So telling her about a movie I find hysterical was a big deal for me.

Yes, I told my T about PC. I doubt she reads here. It wouldn't matter to me if she did.