Do you tell your Therapist about this site?

[Starfire]

My T told me about this site!

 

[user27357]

yep. I told one therapist that I would save her the time of trying to figure out what my online moniker was. She laughed and explained that I only get her time while I am paying for it. OK. So I told her I was Piratelady but I doubt she believed me.

 

[piratelady]

I have told my T that I belong to an online support group

I went ahead and emailed him the entries from my diary. If he asks how I came up with the questions that I did, I think I'll go this route and just say someone from an online support group helped me. I was debating how much info to give him, but i think that sums it up really well.

So I told her I was Piratelady but I doubt she believed me.

Did you say "ARRRR" after that? :roflmao:

 

[user27357]

no, we keep it pretty humorless in there. Why? we just Arrrrrrrrr, ok?

 

[Ronin]

we keep it pretty humorless in there.

So the T walked the plank and these days consults from the bottoms of the ocean, skeletony or not? arrr.

 

[whiteraven]

Yes, I told him. He's glad I have it as support because I am seriously lacking in that regard. He'd never look, but it wouldn't matter to me one way or another if he did.

 

[Sideways]

Out of all her patients, why would my T spend her free time tracking down me online?

Why on earth would she invest her time in that?

I like to think, if she’s got that much free time, she’s uskng that time to do something slightly more well-adjusted, like visiting grandkids, reading professional development articles in medical journals, or watching tv!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Yep. He found this site for me as a form of support so we talk about it often. We say "the site" now as it's the only site we talk about really. Or, I may have to remind him with "the PTSD site". But, not often. I often read my posts off of here as well. He doesn't come on here. He's not familar with any members from here. He has no desire to come on here. He also had no idea what my username is. He asked once when he first found the site for me as he was curious what I regeristered as my username and we spoke a bit about that as it reflects my mental state but that was years ago. He doesn't remember today and not only that but he has made it clear that he has no care to come to the site for any reason. I think its a boundry at this point. Sort of an unsaid boundry that he laid to make me feel safer talking freely here. I trust that and know it to be true as I will talk about well known stuff here and he will have no idea what I am speaking of so will have to explain it. I think it depends on how much you trust you therapist, honestly. Do you trust them if you ask them to not visit the site and they say they won't?

You can read from your diary and not say where its at on the internet or just say its a blog. Which isnt really a lie. Our diaries are sort of like blogs.

 

[blackemerald1]

Nope. I've not told my psydoc or T.

They always tell me I need to be more social and live in the real world. I agree with them and try hard (er) but sometimes going outside and interacting with unfamiliar people is too much so I visit here.

 

[Survivor3]

Yep I told my counsellor that I come on here. He's too busy to ever try to find me on here and would probably see it as unethical. I think he thought it was just good support for me to be on this site.

 

[piratelady]

I feel like I lucked out today. Therapist didn’t think to ask me how I came up with all the questions I worked through, so it turned out to be a non-issue.

I do see everyone’s point though, I’m not his only client, he doesn’t have hours and hours to browse this site, guess who I am and the read all my posts lol.

 

[shatter eyes]

I hide you guys by saying "support group". It tires me to wonder if i am being trolled or cross referenced.
I got 2 Ts and the trauma T i told him about our photo thread started by @bellbird and how brilliant the idea was. The photos we share are amazing and that i like to see something local done. And also when ?? went silent around the anniversary i had a session with T about that I worry and feel connected this forum deeply in a way that i feel emotions. So what u want to talk about? Bellbird is missing.... T is cool and I trust him. The other docs and T does not know.