Posted by Voce on January 6, 2006, at 17:06:05
After much red tape and struggle, I'm finally getting my therapy records since Sept of '03 released to me. Well, I'm actually getting them released to former female T, who works at another university in town now and will pass them on to me once she receives them.
I am doing this because
1. I don't know how long my records will be kept there. With all the upheaval and change that office has seen in the past year, I wanted to make sure I had a copy of my records so that if I ever returned to treatment, I will have these records to give to my provider.
2. I'm not going to lie. Most of those records were written by former male T, and they are the last tangible thing attached to him. Former female T and I had started to go through those records before she was forced to leave.
I'm probably just going to read them myself. Please don't anyone try to convince me not to...I'm very curious and I also feel like I have enough emotional distance to look at them fairly. I realize that it will be quite clinical and dry with very little "personality".
So I went in to sign this release, and while the secretaries were bumbling around trying to find the form, I snuck back to the offices and peeked into my former male T's office. It was TOTALLY different!! Brighter lights, brighter colors, flowers on the rug!!!! When my former T had dimmed lighting, blue couch, Monet on the wall above my head. I always wondered if that was how his office came or if he had decorated it according to his tastes. I guess the latter.
He likes Monet too. :-)
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