Responses To Your Therapist That You Will Probably Never Say

[DharmaGirl]

Lol, pencil, maybe T1 will take trauma out of the qualifications. I have to check in with my T to make sure he's not afraid of me. He always says no.

 

[Abstract]

"I don't think you will ever understand what damage you did to me and the fact that you can't is possibly indicative of why you did damage me in the first place".

 

[Britt.f7]

It has never occurred to me that there are different types of therapists. One I had was, mainly, a sex therapist, she was to help me get through the sexual abuse and have a normal sex life. That didn't work, but she did help me in a lot of other ways. The one I have now, I'm not really sure what all of her qualifications are. The psychiatrist recommended her. I know part of her deal is that she has MS so she is to help me work on my chronic health issues. We really haven't yet.

So I guess my question to her that I doubt I will ever ask is "what are your qualifications?" Because asking now, after several sessions, seems disrespectful.

 

[Smushroom]

Now, I really have no response to this, but my T says:

'The easiest place to start is the easiest place to start' or 'Start where you start'

If I KNEW where to start, I wouldn't be asking lol

 

[Britt.f7]

When I'm walking into her office and she asks me how I am before I even get out of the waiting room, I just want to say "how do you think I am? I'm here and, if you want a real answer why do you ask me where other people can hear?"

 

[Innordinate]

Psychiatrist - "You're suicidal. Do you have a plan?"

Me - "Well, I was hoping we could do a sort of group suicide thing... you go first? No?" :hilarious:

I was thinking of this, in sarcasm, because it really annoys me that all health professionals upon hearing that you have considered suicide ask if you have a plan. This would just be a great reply that I will probably never use, but would get a kick out of it (If I wouldn't most likely be arrested for death threats after...)

Or another one - one I might actually use one day.

Psychiatrist - "Do you have a plan?"

Me - "Yep, but it's not really going to work if I tell you, don't you watch TV? The hero only ever wins because the bad guy mouths off about his plan all the time!! I might be depressed but I'm not THAT stupid! Thanks for thinking I am though......"

 

[Innordinate]

'The easiest place to start is the easiest place to start' or 'Start where you start'l

You could always start at how annoying it is for your T to say that. ;)

Be like "Well, I walked in here and you said to start where to start and now we're sitting here..."

 

[Britt.f7]

Psychiatrist - "Do you have a plan?"

The first time my psychiatrist asked me that question, I asked him what he meant. It seemed like a ludicrous question to me. I said, if you are asking if I thought of how to do it the question is yes, of course I did. I can't imagine not doing that if you are suicidal.

When they ask me that and if I will be "safe", I just want to say, really, you expect me to answer that honestly? I can't imagine anyone who really wants to do it to say, why yes and no I won't be safe. Duh doctors.

 

[Innordinate]

T- says anything.

Me - "would you even have a clue if I was lying or not....ever?"

 

[CrazyHorse]

The first time I went to se my current T, I asked her: "So what can you do for me? I know experiments have been made by using ecstasy in PTSD treatment. Will I be able to get ecstasy from you? I'll pay extra!";)

 

[DharmaGirl]

Oh yeah, the next time I see my T I'm going to ask for X. Pot is legal in Wa state now so I wonder if I should try it. Will it help? I don't know.

When health peeps ask me if I have a plan, I rattle off several, that way they never know my plan.

I also have this horrible desire to poke him in the foot. I don't know why. Maybe I will after he gives me the X.

 

[Let It Be]

After not seeing this counselor since the first of the year, I went back to see her several weeks ago. I was quite surprised when she asked me if I had talked to this one person, who no longer lives here.

After telling her no, she said that, I could call her.

I took a double-take, with the counselor telling me this, as she had informed me in the past that this "friend", was among other things, self-centered, narcisstic, no one could understand why her husband married her, etc. and you want me to call her to see how she is doing because you said I could?

The answer is still no!