Reply To: I "Fired" My Therapist

[Blue Yugo]

@ashockley55 – ah, the “intake”… Well, part of the “longer story” I spared my first post, the deal with going through the EAP is that at first, they only approved me for 2 sessions.  It wasn’t until between the 2nd and 3rd sessions that the therapist had called the EAP and requested an extension for more sessions.  I didn’t know until the day before the 3rd session if additional ones were approved.

Now, what if they didn’t grant an extension?  Then she clearly wasted BOTH original sessions BS’ing about anything.  (Or is she clever and wasted 2 so she could get paid for those PLUS an extension?)  Either way, don’t toy with me!  Don’t waste my time!  Many years ago I’d used the EAP for a different concern, and that time I got 5 sessions.  The first was intake and 4 were productive on the topic at the time.

This current go-round, I guess I’d let the first session slide figuring “intake”.  Though with only 2 sessions originally approved, wasting one on intake seemed a bit much.  (And approving only 2 for someone with ADD is a bit few!)  I got wrapped up in the moment of the 2nd, divulging for an hour all the traits she’d asked me to list about close friends and relatives…but at the end I wrote “ADD” on my paper and addressed it as I was getting up to leave that, “When are we going to talk about my ADD?”  Well, first she said she had to get the EAP to approve more sessions.  Yeah…I left session 2 with a big “What the–?” running through my mind, mentally beating myself up for not forcing the issue at the start of the session.

I just got done watching my download of the TotallyADD Tips 20-minute video.  I got WAY more useful stuff out of that than 3 hours with the Baby Boomer therapist who really doesn’t understand ADD…nor a Gen-X’er I guess.  What it’s telling me is that the TotallyADD gang here is fully vested in helping people like us and know what works and how to present it to an ADD’er.  Too bad the EAP can’t fund this stuff instead of a know-nothing therapist who wasn’t willing to listen to me or validate my testimony of how ADD affects me.  (Speaking of which, I’m craving a new “Bill’s ADDventure”…I hope they got a new one or two in the works…)

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