Posted by pinkeye on May 11, 2005, at 14:30:41
In reply to Starting with a new T (or two)...(triggerish), posted by sunny10 on May 11, 2005, at 14:00:22
It is not a label, it is a diagnosis. And I think your T is right in asking you to see a pdoc first - because you don't want to be treated for a wrong diagnosis right? If you shell out lot of money on your T for a year, and then if she realizes that she was all wrong about you, that you had some thing which should have been treated with medicines, how would that be? I think she is very sensible.
She would still be treating YOU and not the LABEL. It is like a teacher teaches physics, but still she would be teaching the physics lesson applicable to that grade. But she atleast needs to know that she needs to teach physics - I think that is what she is asking for, and I think your T s request is quite fair.
>But the other side of me is saying, "hey, wait a minute. Aren't you going to be providing ME with therapy? Does a label matter? Will you be treating ME or some DSM IV category?"
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