Posted by mikhail99 on December 28, 2002, at 16:38:40
In reply to Re: Therapist Is Causing Me Pain - Please Help!, posted by Sebastian on December 28, 2002, at 14:22:00
> I think many therapists are overloaded with work and constantly get behind in their apointments. This I know because my therapist is constantly 30-60min behind schedual, plus all the people who come in out of the blue with problems needing imediate attention, then at the end of the day he goes throught all the people who called on the answering machine for anouther 2+ hours.
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> I use to feel alienated from my therapist so much that I wouldn't talk in the sesions. I still feel uncomfortable going to see him. I think the problem is that you expect the therapist to immediatly understand how you feel, but they don't, it took me a long time just to figure out what to do at these sessions.
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> I think therapists often are trying to reflect on how you feel. They ask about how much of your meds you are taking because many people don't take the meds prescribed. I think it takes awhile for the therapist to realy understand you.
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> SebastianSebastian, I don't mean to sound judgemental (but I probably will, it's a problem I have) but why would you accept that behavior from your therapist? From your post, he sounds monumentally disorganized. He also doesn't seem to understand about setting up some boundaries between himself and his clients (like when to call or not to call, etc). And I don't think it should take a great deal of time before a therapist gets a handle on what's going on with you if you're honest and able to be forthcoming with information.
I guess I just basically feel that we have to hold our therapists to the same standard that we would everyone else, we're still paying customers and deserve to have someone that for an (50 minute) hour can give us their full attention.
Mik
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