Alright I need help
I’m having a bit of an anxiety, panic attack. Tomorrow is my meeting with the therapist and i dont know what to say.. I’ve gotten so good at saying “I’m fine, thanks for asking” I dont know how to be open. should I tell her about SI the first time? what should i say/not say?
Just as an update, I think my parents are more aware of whats going on than i thought. last night my mom and i were talking about friends and she said out of the blue “Well i’ll tell you this.. these girls are not worth (injuring) for and if i here thats whats happening then we are going to have some major problems.” Kinda shocked me.. I dont know.
Okay so any advice on therapy would be appreciated! Hope you all are well!
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I think you should be as open as possible with your therapist. That’s what they’re there for. They can’t help you if they don’t know what’s going on in your life. And don’t be afraid that they’ll tell what you said to your parents, if you ask them not to, they won’t. It’s part of their contract or something. For me, talking to somebody really helped. Because they’ve dealt with things like this before, so they know how you feel. Their job is to help YOU and make YOU feel better. And if you tell them everything you think they should know to be able to do that, then they will. Trust me, it’s makes you feel a whole lot better that you know there’s someone you can talk to and vent your feelings to that understands what your going through. I hope this helped:]
-Loveisourweapon<3
I have a problem because I’ve learned to be polite. When an adult asks you how you are you’re suppose to say I’m well, how are you?
I so understand what you mean
Also, chances are on your first visit the therapist will ask you a bunch of questions just to kind of see where you are. More than likely SI will come up without you having to bring it up yourself if that makes you feel any better.
most of all be honest. it’s so hard, i know. but try.
just be honest, it’s hard and uncomfortable but it will be so much more productive if you’re honest. Nothing you say is going to shock them. When I went to my first appt. with my psychiatrist he just asked a lot of questions about family, school,work, substance abuse, etc etc etc. So it’s not too scary they usually do most of the talking the first time (at least in my experience) I had to bring up the SI the first time and I had to really psych myself up for it because I was terrified but it wasn’t so bad 🙂 Honesty really is the best policy 🙂
yes yes and yes they are all on exactly the right track be open and over time youll get better im hoping for you. 🙂