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You Get Some Anxiety, You Get Some Anxiety, Everybody Gets Some Anxiety!  
  
 Bad Behavior, Criminal & Illegal, Therapist, USA |  Healthy | August 26, 2019  
 
 
(I go to a therapist for anxiety. For complicated reasons, I’m afraid of asking for an OCD and social anxiety diagnosis, so my partner comes with me.) 
 
Therapist: “Okay, you are aware that I am not a couples therapist?” 
 
Me: *nods* 
 
Therapist: “And that [Partner] is not covered under your insurance?” 
 
Partner: “That’s not why I’m here.” 
 
Therapist: “Okay, well, let me just explain what we’ve been doing here.” 
 
(She says her job description, and then talks about my anxiety. To my horror, she starts spilling every secret I ever told her, including unfair, heat-of-the-moment venting about my partner, without explaining the part after, where I acknowledged my unfairness. I start having a silent panic attack. Eventually, she stops talking.) 
 
Partner: *without any hint of annoyance or anything negative* “I’m just here to help [My Name] ask for a referral to a psychiatrist.” 
 
Therapist: “Sure! I can do that right away for you!” 
 
(We leave. I am too terrified to speak. When we enter the car, my partner sighs angrily.) 
 
Partner: “B****!” 
 
Me: *jumps* 
 
Partner: “Sorry, not you. Don’t worry; I tuned her out once I realized where she was going.” *pauses* “When we get your psychiatrist, do we have to go back to her?” 
 
Me: *shakes my head no* 
 
Partner: “Good. I can’t believe she did that. Do you want a hug?” 
 
(We did hug and talk about the anxiety. My partner also has anxiety, and I’ve been trying to convince her to see a therapist. This… did not help.)
		 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
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