Posted by mair on January 31, 2005, at 12:27:11
In reply to Re: Question for you, posted by gardenergirl on January 30, 2005, at 18:26:18
Thanks GG - that's pretty much what I would have expected.
I am not a person who is dying to read my file. I find it very discomforting to read about myself or hear me discussed by someone using clinical verbiage. I'm sure part of it is just the way you feel when you're referred to in the third person - like when someone is talking about you but not to you. It would be a little strange even if it were another kind of medical record, but when it's derived from a T's or pdoc's records, it's hard not to read into it some sort of judgment.
I switched pdocs 4 years ago when the man who had been my therapist for about 2 years and my meds guy for 2 years after that retired. He wrote a lengthy letter to my new pdoc outlining mostly just my drug history and in much briefer terms, my therapy history. Overly sensitive me read so many judgments into what he wrote, that even years later, it pains me just to think about it. I've probably devoted at least 5 or 6 different sessions with my current T to a discussion of this letter and my feelings about what was written. I can't even begin to imagine how I'd react to a whole file!!
Mair
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