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I dont have a problem with the brainspotting sessions. They are exhausting once done but it does make me feel better. She was able to gauge the level of my anxiety by finding an "activated" spot and also had me find my "resource" spot to lower my anxiety as I spoke about various things.
My main concern is being sent straight to an inpatient hospital without trying other methods first. The hospital I was sent to was horrible. It was an old-fashioned psych ward with lock down procedures and guards, etc. She is so fixated on this hospital and inpatient care that she wont even look at other options first. I have real hard problems with being locked down. I see an inpatient facility as a last resort. I see it as a place to go when ive lost all control of my panic attacks and flashbacks. Not as a place to go after a few brainspotting sessions.
I am so close to getting my service dog and really feel that with my service dog and an outpatient facility or speaking to an actual psychiatrist that I can really tackle this beast. I do question my therapists motives and questions some of her statements and behaviors. For example: downplaying my reasons for hieghtened anxiety and fear about being locked down at Holliswood Hospital, trying to compare me to severley mentally ill patients and trying to accuse me of refusing treatment. Which i have never done. I was merley asking her to try less evasive measures first to see how they would work for me, then when all has been said and done, then try an inpatient facility.
My main concern is being sent straight to an inpatient hospital without trying other methods first. The hospital I was sent to was horrible. It was an old-fashioned psych ward with lock down procedures and guards, etc. She is so fixated on this hospital and inpatient care that she wont even look at other options first. I have real hard problems with being locked down. I see an inpatient facility as a last resort. I see it as a place to go when ive lost all control of my panic attacks and flashbacks. Not as a place to go after a few brainspotting sessions.
I am so close to getting my service dog and really feel that with my service dog and an outpatient facility or speaking to an actual psychiatrist that I can really tackle this beast. I do question my therapists motives and questions some of her statements and behaviors. For example: downplaying my reasons for hieghtened anxiety and fear about being locked down at Holliswood Hospital, trying to compare me to severley mentally ill patients and trying to accuse me of refusing treatment. Which i have never done. I was merley asking her to try less evasive measures first to see how they would work for me, then when all has been said and done, then try an inpatient facility.
