Posted by fallsfall on October 12, 2004, at 6:57:19
In reply to my records, posted by lonelygal on October 11, 2004, at 19:52:39
Please do go to see your therapist and talk about what you should do when you are freaking out. Find out about her phone policy. Each therapist has their own rules, you can't be expected to know your particular therapist's rules if you haven't talked about them. Some therapists get messages at night. Others only check during working hours and want you to call a hotline if you need help after hours. You won't be in trouble with your therapist for not knowing her phone policy. Just ask her what it is.
Given your old therapist's concern about you seeing your records, I would encourage you to talk about this with your current therapist. It is often suggested that patients *ALWAYS* have a therapist present when reading their records. You might want to consider having your new therapist read them and summarize them for you. There have been past threads on reading one's records. Please be cautious about this.
It makes sense that you are scared to see your therapist. These times are what my first therapist called "Therapeutic Opportunities". That always meant that there was going to be a bunch of pain, but that it was going to be OK in the end, and we probably were going to learn something from the experience. It is your therapist's job to help you through things like this.
Good luck!
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