My treatment team includes my psychiatrist, my counselor, and two therapists from an intensive outpatient program.
My psychiatrist and counselor allow me to email them. I sent a group email last Friday to all four of them. The IOP therapists did not respond to me, but they called my psychiatrist, my counselor, and my husband to talk about me. I emailed again on Tuesday. Again they did not respond to me but they called my husband to talk about me.
I felt ignored and didn’t know what to do, so I canceled services with them. The problem is they were helping me with my ocd. They finally emailed me back, “We are confirming that we’ve canceled all future appointments.”
Today my counselor had me call them back and apologize and ask if they will let me back into the program.
You dont suck at life. I dont know the full situation, but i think that is pretty weird behaviour of your treatment team to talk about instead of with you. I could have responded the same.
Perhaps they will still respond. Perhaps they wont and it is necessary to seek other treatment. I would find it strange of them. It is not as if you were aggressive or otherwise acting bad. You had a response to something that actually does seem unkind of them.
Perhaps they will respond after the weekend still!
I think you had a right to be mad. It’s rude of them to only talk to your husband and not you. I feel like they should apologize to you for treating you like that.
But I do hope things can resolve and you can get the treatment you need and deserve
@anon73478309
They responded and I’m back in the program, but they had taken me off of the schedule so I might not be able to go as often. The first visit back will certainly be awkward.
@Noise
Maybe they will apologize! I’m hoping they do, it will be hard to not be upset with them.
@anon78876561
I think the same way. For four years my counselor and psychiatrist have spoken directly with me. If he has any conversations about me (with family, doctors, or hospitals), he tells me their content in full.
The IOP therapists thinks it exacerbates my ocd symptoms if they talk with me. But at $880 each week out-of-pocket, I think they can handle an email every now and then!
I plan on it. I’m nervous to. I need to finish the program because it is really helping with my contamination ocd. I don’t want to have tension with them. But I guess there already is, so we should seek to resolve it.
Thanks @FlyingPurplePeopleMeeter! I think it doesn’t have to be a scary confrontation. You can say it as a kind, sweet request. Say it as a question. Um, I was wondering if you could talk to me instead of my husband. It just makes me feel bad that you prefer talking to him. Or something else that’s kind but still gets it out there.