Does your therapist know about PC?

I haven't mentioned PC to my T. However, she does know I am active in another forum and that I keep a blog there because I sometimes print off my posts to share with her - so she also knows my username on that site. She thinks it's good for me to get support.

I doubt she is browsing PC or the other site in her free time.

You'll always be The Hankster to SD.

Maybe we should all get our therapists to do empathy at SD from afar? "There is a great disturbance in the Force..."

Next we'll fix global warming!

Ack. I did not do anything to her.

Oh good lord.

Blondie seems out of touch. I haven't told any of my T's about this forum and have no need to, but she clearly doesn't understand online forums.
lol!

A much needed reality check.

I don’t think they want that. Certainly not from mere clients.

I would flip if my Ts knew I was on here because I bash ttherapy and therapists as an outlet for my ambivalence and contempt!

I don't think my therapist understand online forums. I don't think he understands facebook either. He doesn't even have a computer in his office. He keeps all his notes in little tiny handwritten chicken scratches. I figure that my confidentiality is assured because nobody but him will ever be able to read them.

I do think that therapists could learn a lot from these forums if they were willing to listen. There seem to be some common themes of intense longing between sessions, fears of telling the therapist something because we might be rejected, anger that therapy isn't working as promised, consequences of blurred boundaries. Lots of things that I thought were just me before I came here.

But maybe the good therapists already know that stuff, and the bad ones wouldn't listen anyway.

Sometimes this is more theraputic than therapy.

I've mentioned a forum that I go on but I haven't given the name. I like keeping PC separate. I tell him most of the things I post here anyway, but I like having my own space to vent about him if I need to. He would easily recognize who I was from my posts.

Ditto!!!!!

I had a few months of questioning if Bill3 was my therapist in disguise - very similar writing styles!

I haven't mentioned using this forum specifically. She does support any way that I am able to get support though. I do feel a little anxious about the possibility of her reading my posts which is definitely irrational since there's nothing bad and if even if there was that would be her baggage to work through.

Right after really stated posting though she brought up a topic I had commented on and used similar words to describe it (it was relevant to my session) but it still freaked me out.

My therapist absolutely knows, and has even shared this site with his other clients. He has been very supportive of me having this online community from the very beginning.

Never talked about it with T. But it wouldn't be something she'd be interested in. She doesn't "live" her job. When she's not working she's Engaging family, hobbies. She mentioned one she barely listens to the news. She needs that space between work and life.

I sure hope not! We just had a horrible 2 sessions and we are done and i really need to post about it and she would absolutely recognize my story, so again I hope she doesnt look at this site. Post coming soon...

They both know I use a forum , one did ask which one with a view to looking at it , but didn't. They know I find it helpful , I've shared some stuff from here and they don't find anything concerning. I don't post anything I wouldn't share with them so wouldn't mind if they knew it was me. I know that isn't the case for everyone though. Therapists perceptions of this group are interesting - it's a blog about bad therapists / therapy , it's a support group and on and on.

I mentioned it to my current t. I've posted enough specifics that she'd have no trouble recognizing herself if she happened across my posts. Every once in a while I wonder if she might be reading the things I post here. Sometimes I wish she were. But it's silly--I know she's waaaaay too busy to go foraging through PC looking for client data. (Also in my own experience, as much as I love my patients, I need to not think about them all the time when I get home or else I will lose my d-mn mind.)

My T knows that I am very into forums. He also knows a few I am on but I would never tell him about PC. However, I wouldn't tell him my username for the other forums I am on as well simply bc I would not see his reaction if he would read one of my posts.( he probably wouldn't anyway) I am easily embarrassed tho anyway.

My T knows as I've mentioned specifically "psych central forums" in my journals to her. I've no idea what she thinks about PC but she's never seemed judgmental about online friendships I mention. She was very understanding when I told her how ex T thought my partner and I weren't serious because we met online. She's supportive of my long distance relationship with my partner, and knows "online friends" have been a lifeline to me since I was an older teen.

Sometimes I share insights I've learned here, and I told her I got the courage to ask her for a transitional object through here