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View Poll Results: Have you ever lied in therapy or to your therapist? | ||||||
Yes, I've lied about how bad I really feel | 20 | 45.45% | ||||
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Yes, I've lied about my symptom severity | 21 | 47.73% | ||||
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Yes, I've lied about my thoughts about suicide | 21 | 47.73% | ||||
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Yes, I've lied about my insecurities and doubts about myself | 9 | 20.45% | ||||
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Yes, I've lied about pretending to like my therapist's comments | 12 | 27.27% | ||||
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Yes, I've lied about my use of drugs or alcohol or self harm | 15 | 34.09% | ||||
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Yes, I've lied about why I missed appointments/was late | 7 | 15.91% | ||||
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Yes, I've pretended to find therapy more effective than I do | 8 | 18.18% | ||||
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Yes, I've pretended to be more hopeful than I really am | 9 | 20.45% | ||||
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Yes, I've lied about things I have done that I regret | 7 | 15.91% | ||||
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Yes, everything I discuss in therapy is a lie | 1 | 2.27% | ||||
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No, like Pinocchio...I cannot tell a lie | 5 | 11.36% | ||||
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Other | 11 | 25.00% | ||||
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Poohbah
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#21
I put "other." I've lied to all my therapists in the past, but when I started seeing current T I made a commitment to myself not to lie to him. I don't lie directly, but I will omit things sometimes.
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#22
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The bolded I do all the time. I exaggerate how helpful therapy is. Sometimes it is not near the truth. |
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i was guilty of this as well because of my fear of upsetting my T, hurting his feelings, for appearing ungrateful, and the biggest fear, that he would abandon me if he didn't think he was helping me. but when the interventions were actually not helping me and making my symptoms worse or when i was feeling greatly misunderstood, i could no longer continue stroking my Ts ego in spite of my mental well being and shrinking bank account. it was scary to start asserting my needs and advocating myself. sometimes T was welcoming of my honest feedback, but then other times he was not and reacted with defensiveness or would withdraw his care...but that is a story for another thread. i actually think that this happens quite often in the therapeutic relationship, but what i'm not sure of, and what worries me, is how aware are Ts that this is happening?? |
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#24
Maybe it’s not exactly lying. But I don’t tell her anything about my past because I don’t want her to judge me on how I was 5-13 years ago. I want to focus on what’s going on right now. So she doesn’t know much of my history and I have refused to have my records from my last clinic sent over.
I also lied and told her I was female instead of gender non binary because I felt like she wouldn’t have taken me seriously and just have told me I was confused. And that would just crush me because I know I’m not confused. So it was easier to lie. __________________ Ridin' with Biden |
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#25
I don't lie about much in therapy, but I do lie about how I feel a lot of the time saying I feel better than I really do and I also lie about the feeling of being hopeful a lot of times. I think if I would lie too much then why waste my time going to therapy at all because it would be effective at all.
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