Do Therapists Read Myptsd?

[More chocolate]

I always get a big paranoid posting here in case my T would find it, or someone I knew.
Do your Ts talk about this website? Or read it themselves?
I know mine would probably have an issue with it since its online and not confidential.

 

[anthony]

Lots of therapists read here, sure. But unless you drop your name or location, they wouldn't have a clue who you are. Sure... many could take guesses, but your denial would stop that. There are so many repetitive situations here... its scary.

 

[Rumors]

I have noticed that there are lots of stories that are eerily the same. Or, lots of symptoms that are pretty common as a group. Doubtful anyone would know it is you unless you use a story that references something specifically to an area or quote what your therapist said using a specific subject. I wouldn't worry about it. It is a good place to vent. Use it for what it is worth and let the pieces fall where they may.
Good luck!

 

[Anarchy]

a few simple tricks like being vague about your exact location times and dates

so for example, seeing your T on Park Street StAlbans at 14:30 Tuesday, becomes, I'm in SE England, I Saw my T earlier this week.

and suddenly there's a haystack of several thousand possible individuals, and you are one very well hidden needle in that haystack.

Tragically, trauma is not rare. according to some figures (IIRC) perhaps as many as 10% of the population will experience PTSD at some time in their lives

-I wish none of us did, but, in Britain it means about 6 million of those currently living there will at some time discover PTSD's little joys. That's a very big haystack to hide in.

 

[watundah]

I have had that thought but prefer to think about how she's much too busy with her own things to lurk here. Otherwise, she's learning a whole lot of what I carry away from our sessions! :ninja: That wouldn't be a bad thing but seems a bit unethical.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

I think therapists are probably far too busy to read on here, plus this isn't the only one - there are others so how would they know you're on this specific one... Unless you told them?

 

[Friday]

So I go through periodic bouts of exposed exposed exposed where it feels like the information I'm giving is more identifying than a DNA sample, fingerprints, and GPS coordinates to my present location. But really?

Military, turned paramilitary, turned abusive marriage, turned ugly custody situation. Ummm... ? Maybe not as common as any of those individually, but we're still talking thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people. And that's deliberately stringing those 4 things together. Individually? Pfft. Grains of sand on a beach. Even the rarest of traumas still involve 10s of thousands of people annually. Much less common ones like rape, which happen every 23 seconds. Millions and millions and millions of people.

I had a very realistic fear of my ex coming on here & using what I was posting against me in court. Is it possible that could happen? Yep. But in order for that to happen? "So you recognize yourself being described as this psychopathic child abusing f*ck?" :hilarious: Go ahead and see who referencing this shit hurts.

No such thing as a new plot.

 

[GrowingJoy]

I am a therapist but also a survivor of child sexual abuse. I have no interest in piecing together is someone here might be a client. I never look up clients on the internet. I take what they have to say in session at face value and explore with them there. My philosophy on being a therapist is that it is NEVER about me. I hold space for a clients emotions and treat them with as much respect as I possibly can. I try to laser focus on what is going on for them, help them to name it, understand it, and when appropriate, show them a different way to view it. I am on here for me and the things that I have experienced in my life, not to find out about what other people have gone through and attach that to a real person.

 

[Kintsugi]

I doubt Ts look into who you are on here. I asked my first T to come here, when I was really ill and we were doing phone sessions at the end of my college career, because I wanted her to see how absolutely legit the whole place was. She was very impressed and supported my activity here.

My current T knows I'm active here, knows I'm a mod, knows I edit articles. She seems to think--no, understand--that it's the only place I'm really authentic, so sometimes she prods me to pull apart why, and why I am able to maintain relationships here in a way I find impossible in real life.

 

[void]

I always get a big paranoid posting here in case my T would find it, or someone I knew.
Do your Ts talk about th...

Fear hackers and identity thieves, but not therapists.
:)

 

[anthony]

Fear hackers

Argh... it isn't easy to hack a server. TV make crap up. Yes, there are elite hackers who you could count on your fingers and toes, but they often have much better things to do with their time, like their highly paid jobs to secure top company and IT infrastructure. Hacking typically needs inside help... some type of exploit to be installed locally on your device.

You should have more fear of making a mistake and opening an email attachment from someone you don't know or expect to be emailing you, or installing an app if using Google, on your device... and that app being malicious in nature and providing the exploit.

Identity theft... that is a reasonable fear. Being hacked? Would take that off your list to be honest, especially if you're uber safe about what you open.

 

[Rumors]

I am guessing if hackers wanted to waste their time it wouldn't be here reading a bunch of f*cked up stories about people's trauma!!! They would be fiercely working to hack bank accounts..lol.