[199/366] therapy

[cosmolinguist]

In today's appointment, my therapist still thinks I'm doing really well and I'm like I told you I've been depressed at least since I was 19 and probably had anxiety since kindergarten, all you're doing is telling me cutesy names for stuff I figured out myself through trial and error or skill-sharing with my mentalist friends and then explaining them to me as if they're Baby's First Coping Mechanism.

Next week is my last. I just hope she doesn't think I'm doing so well that she doesn't refer me for anything else.

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[barakta]

Also, you wouldn't have been asking for or accepting therapy for anything you could get from reading online or your friends. The whole purpose of this was a safer space with a ratcheted professional who could provide that extra therapeutic support.

I agree with Lilysea, disablism is rife in therapy stuff, especially with the "one-tune" brigade. It's clear she's so busy spewing she's NOT listening to you, or she'd have heard you say "I don't need larger text, I need electronic text" and done just that and been open to further feedback. and frustrating that you can't give critical feedback to her managers without risking your future access to support.

I never managed to do formal feedback on my dreadful counsellor, who I only had to see once. I am so sorry she is basically a spoon vampire that you have to engage with to try and get someone who doesn't suck a lot.