Posted by Tamar on July 7, 2006, at 6:19:43
Things have been so hard for the last week. My diabetes has been out of control for no apparent reason. I’ve been doing a LOT of sleeping. But I managed to go to therapy yesterday morning.
Then today I spoke to my GP. About a month ago we’d discussed the possibility that I might reduce my dose of Prozac. So I spoke to her today and asked if I could do just that.
She said she had spoken to my therapist about me and he had told her I was struggling with my demons. I agreed that I’d been having a hard time in therapy a couple of weeks ago but I said that I was now coping fairly well. She then asked me if I was still seeing my therapist.
I’m very angry because he never mentioned talking to my GP. I don’t mind him talking to my GP, but I’d like to have been informed. I’m pretty sure I told him at the outset that he could talk to my GP about me if necessary, but I don’t quite see how this was ‘necessary’. Convenient, perhaps. Useful, perhaps. But necessary?
Of course, it’s possible that she talked to him since I saw him yesterday, but if that’s the case it’s a little odd that she asked me if I was still seeing him.
I also think that if he was going to talk to her about how I’m coping, he should have told her that he made a mistake in therapy that I was struggling to deal with. Omitting that rather significant fact makes it look as if I’m simply struggling with the usual pressures of everyday life.
I just don’t think it’s fair. I don’t think it’s fair for him to give my GP an assessment of my mental health without (a) informing me of the fact, and (b) informing her of *his* role in my current struggle.
His professional decisions impact on my life. It’s not a trivial matter to me.
Am I being unreasonable? I desperately want to phone him and ask *when* he talked to my GP about me. But I’m afraid of the consequences.
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