Couch 252: Kitties and Hawks

RIP Hotlips (Loretta Swit). She was so funny in that role. I quit watching after McLain Stevenson left - I never could abide Col Potter (and he had played a crazy general earlier in the same show) or the BJ Hunicutt/charles characters.

Yes, she almost outshone the movie Hotlips.

5 more days of work before I’m off for 9 days straight. Ahhhh.

Who else is tired of hearing about the TV couple getting pardoned? Their faces are at every turn. I’m over them. lol

I hate them so much. Nothing means anything anymore.

Exactly.

Apparently, party affiliation does.

Have any of you ever had to sign a treatment plan *before* the first therapy session? A friend was asked to do so and balked at “you agree to the goals outlined by your therapist” before even speaking to the provider.

I certainly wouldn’t sign that, and I’ve never encountered it myself..

Yes, party affiliation and/or having enough money (or your family having enough money) that you can buy off people in power. I forget who, but someone recently got pardoned because their mother paid to attend a million-dollar-a-plate dinner or something like that.

And I wouldn't sign a treatment plan before speaking to the provider, no. I've actually never signed a formal treatment plan with any of my therapists. (I mean, I signed a consent to treatment, but that's different, and a legal thing.)

Is it some really specific sort of therapy like DBT? (Even then, I'd balk at it.) Or just a regular therapist?

I signed an informal treatment agreement when I was in a DBT group. It wasn’t binding or anything. Just that I agreed to the rules and group format but that was on the first night of the group-not before hand. I only stayed in the group a short time. It was a crock of ****. At least for me.