Asking Therapist For An Assessment?

[Deleted member 26314]

I'm not quite sure what to do when it comes to my therapist. I asked to change to a different therapist a while back, she then referred me to the psychiatrist and my request to change was forgotten about. I don't particularly like her, but my experience with asking to change and see someone else hasn't always gone well. That and it has always seemed to take about 3 months waiting and then it gets forgotten about. So yeah.. debating on asking again.

I'll email her, talk to her about arranging another appointment and add in those things about what to talk about and such. What kind of things should I write down? Just my symptoms or the traumatic experience I went through or just a paragraph about me babbling on about how I feel? I have no idea.. I get so stressy and panicy when it comes to the little things.

 

[Meadowsweet]

Katarina, as an adult with mental health issues, leaving you on a waiting list for 6-12 months is sadly a norm on the NHS, and if you miss appointments, you go back on the waiting list. As a teenager, you have that opportunity to get help a lot quicker - that's the way it should be - but the reason I'm telling you that is because how would you know until you're in that position.

To get a treatment for PTSD, you do need to talk about the trauma. I know it's difficult, and that therapy difficult, and makes all of us want to give up at times. But if you want to get better and live a full and fulfilling life, then at some point, you will have to bite the bullet and ,tell somebody what has happened.

Therapy is a choice, it's not a right, and a diagnosis doesn't make it any easier to go through. At the moment you have the opportunity for getting that help, and while you still have time, it's such a good opportunity to take.

I'm just urging you to keep the appointments that you've been offered and use them to get you better by opening up as much as you can - because your recovery is in your hands now. It feels like that's not fair sometimes, but that is the way it is. You don't want to be 40 and still dealing with this do you?

 

[Deleted member 26314]

Of course I don't want to still be dealing with this, hence my asking what to do. I am going to go to my therapist and I will talk to her. I just have no idea what to say.. As for talking about the trauma, I will when I am ready and as a therapist, she should know this. I am going to go, like I said, I didn't before because I was anxious and just thought it best to avoid them. But, I will go and get help because I know that's what I need to do.