New VCB appears to be making an honest attempt to establish a rapport with you; however, her being privy to your sessions with C would make me feel compromised. If it were me, I would question how much of an influence C will ultimately have over NewVCB as she continues to see you.

She may very well keep her work about seeing you in four-to-six weeks, if for no other reason than to monitor the efficacy of the Seroquel. Keep us posted as your system acclimates to the drug. Expect it to be a full operation in four-to-six weeks, although you will feel the side effects, most notably the sleepiness, right away. {{Hugs}} Alix xx

The therapy timelimit sounds frustrating. While yes I’m sure a lot can be done in 20 weeks, and i have heard arguments that a timelimt can make therapy more effective in that it pushes people to confront what they need to, in my experience it can also work the other way, in that you become reluctant to really open up and unpack things because you know there’s a good chance you’re going to be left alone still dealing with the fallout. And of course the more therapy becomes about therapy the less time there is to address the real stuff.

Take care

(Btw would you consider letting me have your password? No worries if not)

Hope it works out for you…

I hope this Quetiapine shit works, because coming off Venlafaxine even if it does will be a nightmare

Take care babes, hugs to you too xxx

Lots of hugs for youxxx

He claims he didn’t tell the NewVCB about my history with Paedo, so it could only have been PLW. I had forgotten that I had mentioned the issue briefly to her, so it seems that I’m falsely accusing him :-/

Thanks as ever for your thoughts – and you’re absolutely right about “get some perspective”!

Thanks again.

Psychiatrists (and perhaps their allied health ilk) do seem to have a different sense of time from the rest of the population.

“Get some perspective”. Those are three of the most aggravating words in the English language.

I have never been on an anti-depressant, Seroquel neither.

Perhaps it was out of “interprofessional respect” that C told the things about Paedo and Christmas. They are/were going to affect your treatment big time. My own warned me about that sort of thing. I think it is mandatory to report any sort of abuse going on. It is true that they were not ‘his’ things to tell.

Pilgrim wrote a really great list of things therapists shouldn’t do. No, her friend Katie had it:

Things Therapists Shouldn’t Do from Health Diaries

Number 10 describes very very well. It is about confronting the issues for which you went into therapy; not the relationship with the therapist.

Private therapy and medicine does exist here, but since I can’t work at the minute it would be prohibitively expensive for me. I looked into the possibility of insurance myself, but either they don’t cover psychiatry or psychology at all, or you have to be in the plan for at least two years, with no history of mental health trouble. I’m pretty screwed that way then

But anyway, tanks for your words of comfort too It’s much appreciated and does help, I love our Twitter support group! Take care of yourself x

We have found that it has really helped with the flashbacks and hypervigilance. When we switched to new shrink last October, he being a specialist who works with trauma and DID people, this was the first thing we wanted him to change. It had been such a constant for ao long we wer sick of it.

Now we are on Xanax XR, Zoloft, and the Seroquel and haven’t had a panic attack in months. It’s good stuff. Also beware of sleepiness at first.

Glad that things weren’t horrific at least. It would freak us out completely to have our care being decided by somebody or somebody’s else. We don’t care enough about our citizens here enough to ensure that everybody has access to health care. So it’s up to the individual to find and pay for their own care. We are very very fortunTe in that we have insurance to cover a part of our mental health bills and can pay for the rest. Good side of that however is that it’s a buyer’s mRket foe the most part.

We are so sorry that you have to go thru this.