Social Anxiety In Therapy

[Deleted member 36265]

So I'm wanting to start therapy but I have bad social anxiety and It doesn't feel like I would ever be able to actually talk about anything. The last therapist I went to was to get a gender dysphoria diagnosis. She was not at all a good therapist she said things like my sexuality was basically fake and hopefully she can help me find a real one and compared me to people who identify as animals. Just a couple out of tons of reasons why she was bad. Well I was already planning to get a different therapist after her but on the last appointment she said "I noticed you're very twitchy" and started shaking her body weirdly and showed it to my mom too which embarrassed and offended me. I knew I was but no where near as dramatic as she was acting like. She even looked at me weirdly and just in general made me feel bad about it. So that really didn't help but she actually gave me the diagnosis for social anxiety disorder. I totally believe I have it but she presented it in such a bad way. Well did you guys feel really anxious in therapy? Could/did you still talk? Did it go away?

 

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She was a crappy therapist who had no right to be a therapist
(unfortunately it's very easy for people to become therapists in the US)
But that doesn't mean don't give up, because we've all had to wade through some pretty crappy ones before. Sometimes we just don't click with our therapist either, and that happens too.
The key is finding one with the proper initials behind their name, so you can check with their training. Also, if you call around, ask questions before you commit yourself to one T, you might even find a therapist who specializes with people in the LGBT community, which would be totally awesome eh?
Therapy takes time, we won't open up immediately, because we protect ourselves, but it's worth it, and you should be proud of yourself for wanting to find another therapist, especially after the last one was such utter shite x