Posted by Mair on September 11, 2001, at 21:01:25
In reply to Re: Kazoo Sar - how this feels » Mair, posted by Jane D on September 11, 2001, at 1:38:24
Shelli - everything you say is true. I'm quite certain that my pdoc will be fine with another arrangement if i request it. I see her next week and I think this is something I can raise. Even though I can intellectualize that she thinks she's doing this for my benefit, it still rankles a bit. Maybe you're right about feeling on some equal footing. I'm way beyond the days when I used to mythologize people like this.
Jane - you raise a very interesting point - that no matter how much people try to treat depression as just another treatable biological illness, it really is different in that you do sort of feel that mental health providers feel they need to be protected from you. I doubt many regular doctors feel this way about patients. I've been seeing my therapist for about 3 years. In that time, she never offered me her home phone number until I crashed somewhat last winter. I had always taken her omission to mean that she really didn't want me calling her at home. If need be, I could have found her number in the phone book (she is listed), but since she hadn't offered it to me, hell would have frozen over before I'd have ever called her. I do think the inference is there that we might try to get too much access and I do really resent that since i know it's never going to be a problem with me.
Thanks for all your feedback
Mair
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