[stopdog]

Do you know the date you hired the therapist? Do you mark therapy anniversaries?

I inspired a stopdog poll! #bucketlistgoals

Had it not been my therapiversary today I probably just would have chosen "yes" but seen as I sent him a gif of spongebob celebrating, I guess "yes and I celebrate" is more appropriate.

[LostOnTheTrail]

I know the date I started with P, and I know the date of initial meeting and first proper session with R. (R contacted me via email whilst I was in my final session with P....a moment of grace in the storm.)

[velcro003]

i chose other. with my current T, i know i started sometime in the summer 2 years ago. My T actually mentioned a few times that we were coming up to our 2 year anniversary a few times, and i just ignored it. lol.

I don't keep track of when I start with a therapist. Frankly I don't give a hoot. I don't know when I started seeing my dentist, family doctor, chiropractor. My therapist fits in the same category. Note I'm the same person who lacks an attachment to their therapist.

[Teddy Bear]

If my T were to mention it I really wouldn't care

[zoiecat]

I put other I do not know the exact day I started I just know it was in December of last year. The only day I plan on celebrating is the day I'm leaving therapy. Obviously I am keeping track roughly how long this takes and I hope it doesn't take forever but with my issues it's probably going to be at least 5 years I think I will keep track until then I'm not fixed by then it's time to call it quits.

[CharlieStarDust]

I remember the exact date. But I tend to remember specific dates of other things too. I usually acknowledge it, but we never celebrate, or make a point of it. She'll sometimes bring it up in context. I like it that way. I wouldn't want to celebrate/mark it, other than verbally.

i put yes. i don't celebrate them, more like just say in a session once a year "holy cow now it's been X years" every time we pass one. We just passed the 6th one a little over a month ago.

[fille_folle]

I don't mark anniversaries, but I know start dates. I know the date I started with longtime T because it was the day before my birthday, and she insisted on seeing me on my birthday, too. My birthday present was a trip to the hospital.

I've only been seeing my current T for less than two months, so that's why I remember the start date with her.

[Salmon77]

I don't remember the exact date of my first session with T. I remember what month it was so when I get to that month it occurs to me, that's a year of therapy. It doesn't seem like something to celebrate though.

[AllHeart]

I know some dates, mostly just month and year. I use only to gage the length of time I have been in therapy.

[ruh roh]

I silently celebrate because I had such a poor track record of sticking with therapists. Until the one I see now, the longest had been one and a half years. Most were just a few months. So for myself, it feels like an accomplishment.

[nervous puppy]

With current T, I don't know the exact date. I know it was the week of Thanksgiving, and the year (if I count backwards). I only know that because every year around the same time we do an annual review and set a new goal for the following year. Things to focus on or work on, then I sign it. It doesn't leave T's office, but she thinks it's a good practice to do. I'm fine with it and I think discussing what I want to work on and reviewing it each year is good for me too.
With my old T, I only new it was the winter of a certain year. I had absolutely no clue about the date, nor did I care. The other reason I know the start of current T is because it was so traumatic when old T suddenly passed away.

[WarmFuzzySocks]

I remember it was spring. Ish. Almost three years ago.

[MessyD]

I'm not sure about the exact date but I know the months I started. I don't celebrate it but I do remind myself, holy cow, another year. I've never mention it to him, hoping he wouldn't realize how long it's been

[kecanoe]

I know the month/year I started with T1, but only because that month and year marked our 20th anniversary.

I do not remember exactly when I started with T3, but I think it was between 2 and 3 years ago.

I do not mark nor celebrate the anniversaries. Nor do I remember when I stopped with either T2 or Ex T

[DP_2017]

i know when i started, i have a weird memory for random dates of things but i have no plan to celebrate it if i am even there when the 1 year comes around

[Miswimmy1]

I only remember the dates for one of my Ts. We used to celebrate our anniversary because it was another year under my belt and it was a time that we utilized to look at how far I'd come and sort of take inventory of what we wanted the next year to look like.

For the T I see now, I'm not comfortable enough to ask him whether we could celebrate anything. Plus, I've only been seeing him for a few months.

I dont remeber the exact date but the date my T has down as starting is taken from my mental health care plan and i am sure i saw him a few weeks either before or after tht date.

[mostlylurking]

I put "other." I remember the month and year, and probably at least once a month I calculate how long I've been in therapy (currently 2 years 8 months oh my god) and think surely he's wondering why the hell I'm still seeing him? Nothing really that bad ever happened to me, right? So what am I doing? Definitely not a celebration for me, more of an insecurity. I know I shouldn't minimize things that happened etc but I can't seem to help it. I feel very silly for still being in therapy. It's probably part of why I obsess about my next session so much-- because I better have enough material that it seems justified that I'm still going.

[MobiusPsyche]

Yes I know the month and year, and yes I celebrate by giving T a card.

[captgut]

I remember the date - December 24th
But I don't celebrate it.

[starfishing]

I know approximately when I started seeing my current therapist, but I definitely couldn't be sure of the date without looking back at my calendar. For the most part I think I could remember roughly the month or time of year when I started and ended with various therapists in the past, but exact dates have never sprung to mind.

I don't remember the date I started or the date I ended anymore. Last week I asked my standby therapist is it a year or 18 months ago that I met you? These kinds of dates are no longer important to me anymore. I am just very grateful that she is there as I deal with family and aging parents.