Interesting article about googling you therapist

I resist the urge to google therapists, simply because I've never found it helpful for me. I do a cursory search to see if they have a license and it is in good standing. But I don't go digging around on personal social media sites. It's not that I think it's wrong or anything, but there are some things I just don't really want to know. I kind of like my therapist and think he's pretty good, but if I found out that he hated cats, liked to shoot animals for fun, or thought our current president is the best one ever, I'd have to conclude that he was actually an idiot.

I have been stalked also. It is a horrible experience. Even after I had protective orders taken out, usually they didnt do any good.

My therapist has googled me. Of you lnow my real name i am quite easy to find on the stupid internet.

I had a kind of amusing but not experience in which I googled my T and came face to face with cute pictures of him hugging an adorable little girl.

I have issues, so it was very aversive and kind of a self-punishing behavior. No one could pay me to look at that page again( unless he is such a good T, that I overcome all my issues).

I realized fast that the kind of info I want isn't available; I want to hear him speak at length about his view of trauma treatment, Macbeth, and why he doesn't like dogs ( I am in love with my dogs) , but none of that is on the internet.

We had a funny experience in which the insurance company inadvertently sent his home address on billing. After stalling, I told him, and I don't think he believed me until I gave him my actual statement. Now, I avoid the town he lives in at all costs.

I want to know what his POV is like- if he is soulful , friendly, restless, conflicted etc. He seems like a bit fractious, complaining, and difficult as a neighbor, but he also seems very loving and devoted to his patients( me) and his family. He is almost a cliche of a preppy ivy leaguer in a nice boring way, not an entitled way.

There is just nothing google can tell me that answers my questions, and he is not talking. Boo.

There is no way he has enough interest in me to google me, but my FB page is open and focused on my job, so there's not anything he doesn't know already(?). We're both on Linked IN but neither has looked at the others page, unless he does "private mode". I am way too lazy to invest in however you get private mode, as I don't think I can learn what I want to know.

Couple of examples from over the years:

We had a patient make multiple death threats towards one of our psychiatrist after an involuntary admission. Based on his past we felt it was fairly credible. Security called for to see if we had a picture so they could have it on hand just in case. A quick Google search produced one.

We had a client who was famous years ago (career wise) and told us if we had a chance Google his name. So we dis.

Definitely not something we do on any regular basis...

I've been stalked and I don't think googling is stalking. Employers in my country regularly google employees.