{"id":947,"date":"2009-05-12T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T01:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=947"},"modified":"2009-05-12T20:26:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T01:26:03","slug":"karen-answers-pkm-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers PKM MD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment by PKM MD on 02 May 2009 at 2:15 pm<\/p>\n

Hello Karen,<\/p>\n

I respect and admire your decision to share your story. As a psychiatrist I would like to know what you believe to be the greatest misconception of the therapy you have received? What would you like others to know? Besides the obvious positives what was one downfall? Would you suggest therapy to another? What if you need more help? Would you re-consider starting therapy again?<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

P.K.M. MD<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dear Dr PKM,<\/p>\n

Thank you for your compliment about me sharing my story. There are many misconceptions about the therapeutic relationship. Too many to write here on my blog. However, one of the greatest misconceptions that can eventually hurt the patient is to let the patient believe they are loved by you. \u00a0It’s such a risk for a patient to pour out their heart and soul to a therapist while building trust. \u00a0When a broken person, like me, enters into a therapeutic relationship, it takes all the strength they have to let go of the boundaries and walls they’ve built to contain their pain. For me, trust was such a big issue to overcome. \u00a0I could not trust until I felt loved. My healing started when I felt Dr. Baer loved me. \u00a0I healed out of love, nothing else.<\/p>\n

I made Dr. Baer my family. \u00a0I could not change the way I felt at the end of the therapeutic relationship. \u00a0I couldn’t accept that he didn’t feel the same way after all that we had gone though. \u00a0The misconception was that I thought of the therapy more as a friendship than as professional. Dr. Baer was trained to work therapeutically with the relationship, I was not. \u00a0I developed feelings. He did not. I felt cared for, and it was his job to care for me, and he did. \u00a0But I took my healing personally. \u00a0He felt he did his best job, but I was left feeling alone.<\/p>\n

Although therapy saved my life and healed me, it can be painful in the end. \u00a0It took me so many years to build a good, sound relationship, only to have it end and realize that it wasn’t a real relationship in the first place. \u00a0It’s been a hard thing for me to overcome.<\/p>\n

Hope my answer helps you.<\/p>\n

Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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