Posted by wishingstar on December 9, 2006, at 9:31:48
In reply to Update....kind of...***trigger***, posted by bottomfeeder on December 8, 2006, at 15:43:25
My guess it that she was asking where and said it matters because she wanted to assess the danger. My therapists in the past have usually done that, and if I've cut on my wrists (I usually dont) they proceed to tell me how it's dangerous, etc etc. I think thats why some Ts ask to see also.. to assess how likely you are to REALLY hurt yourself, even on accident. I dont know why shed refuse to tell you if that was the reason.
I'm worried that it doesnt sound like your T either has experience with or is ocmfortable in dealing with SI. I guess if it were me, "go read the book again" wouldnt have felt very helpful. I'm all for reading.. I've probably read every SI book out there. Those books are helpful, but I feel like there's a piece (a large one) to be gotten from actual therapy - books are intellectually informative and speak in pretty general terms, whereas therapy is obviously about YOU and YOUR situation/feelings, etc. Does she want to talk more about it in depth later? I hope she does.
Congrats on being able to bring it up her again though! I'm proud of you for doing that. I'm sure it was very hard and I'm glad she was at least somewhat receptive.
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