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Re: Going over my notes to myself » DissociativeJane

Posted by Dinah on June 11, 2003, at 22:33:39

In reply to Re: Going over my notes to myself, posted by DissociativeJane on June 11, 2003, at 22:20:26

In my state, you can request medical records. I've had four psychiatrists in my life. I requested the records for my childhood one, and while the psych records had long since been destroyed, there were some notes in my pediatric file from my psychiatrist. I actually found him after all these years and asked what he meant by those notes since one of them was rather alarming, but he didn't remember.

I also asked for the records from a well respected psychiatrist that I went to very briefly. I really wasn't well at the time, and that relationship ended badly because of me. But the records were very well organized and enlightening.

I didn't ask for the records from my current doc, although I might when he retires. He seems to take very sparse notes tho, and is rather averse to giving a diagnosis.

And I didn't ask for the notes from my second pdoc, the pdoc from h*ll, because he worked closely with my therapist and consulted about me with my therapist. I'm afraid his notes will tell me a bit more than I want to know about how my therapist sees me, or at least how he saw me at that time. I'm not an idiot, and I don't want to cause myself needless pain.

I just finished a conversation with my husband about whether he saw the same improvements in me that I saw in myself from the notes. He said he did.

So I've sort of answered for myself a question that's been bugging me a bit, about whether therapy has been helpful or hurtful.

 

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