Do You Hold Back?

[hodge]

I am completely open in therapy, once I determine I can trust the therapist, which doesn't take more than a session or two for me. I figure this is what I'm paying them for, and if I'm not forthcoming, how are they going to be able to help me?

 

[Deleted member 29889]

I have to admit that there are things i dont talk to my T about. I was wondering how many of us here hol...

You bet!

My reasons are because I was abused (psychologically and almost sexually assaulted) by a "counselor." Plus, I visited three therapists over the last twenty years who didn't mention PTSD and who utterly FAILED to spot my family's history of severe and pervasive mental illness. At least, if they did, they sure didn't explain it to me or inform me of it. In a nutshell, one might surmise that I am a bit ticked off about some of my experiences with mental health professionals. Though I have a good deal of trust in this therapist, I have an undercurrent of distrust which I shall never relinquish. I see it as a self-preservation issue. I look at it this way: my if one of them gets a notion to put a client on a 1013, who is going to be believed? The patient (AKA the sick/crazy person) or the therapist/counselor?

Does it show that I've felt betrayed by the helping professions? LOL.

I am NOT meaning for my above rant to be interpreted as advice!!! I'm describing how I think and my lack of trust - even in people I trust.....