How long does it take you to get over the trauma of seeing a psychiatrist?

[Suzanne]

For a friend, it takes her a week! For me, a day and half, which I am grateful for, because it is not a nice feeling. Too emotionally charged for my liking, but know that I have to go through it.

 

[Bolletje]

Seeing a psychiatrist isn’t usually traumatic for me.

 

[Streetwise]

i've never seen a psychiatrist i've seen a psychologist and I've seen a psychiatric nurse but it's always traumatic it gets easier when you know where you are going and what the room looks like .
it's never easy but I think it's different if you have no family support of friend support and you live alone ,like you I have Ha-Shem(G~d) Who is there 24 seven.
i'm supposed to be starting telephone therapy in the summer hoping I will manage it .

 

[Progster]

First of all, I don't see a psychiatrist very often, but like any kind of visit to a doctor, that would depend on the nature of the visit - if the psychiatrist starts to discuss personal issues, or is rude/unhelpful or dismissive of my problems, then that would upset me and it would take a while to recover, perhaps a day or two. If it's just to discuss medication, then I wouldn't find that stressful and wouldn't need recovery time.

 

[Mr Allen]

To be honest it probably takes them the time to get over seeing ME!

The last time I saw my Counsellor, I went on a full scale swear word filled rant for half an hour about everything that was going wrong in my life at the time and back then there was a LOT to talk about.

 

[Gritches]

Not usually traumatic for me. Though I did once see a "trauma-focused CBT" therapist once. Just once. She tried to start with my traumas from earliest memory to present day. Noooop. noop noop noop noop noop. I did not make it past 5 years old on that timeline before I was quite overwhelmed and very ready to abandon TFCBT.

 

[As sweet as-pie]

Wasn't traumatic for me until I got diagnosed with PTSD and after I told my psych about the trauma, I developed severe DP/DR which I still have to this day. (1.5 years.)

 

[clg114]

I have only been to a psychiatrist three times and that was for my diagnosis. That was not traumatic, it was just to confirm what I already knew. Well, I had to pay for it. I guess that might have been a little traumatic.

 

[George Newman]

For a friend, it takes her a week! For me, a day and half, which I am grateful for, because it is not a nice feeling. Too emotionally charged for my liking, but know that I have to go through it.

I understand. My psychiatrist is the only human being I have found that I can be completely honest with. I would say that during sessions the conversation can become challenging and my mind is working on addressing the basis for the challenge(s) pretty intensely for the next few hours or until I have some mental bandwidth to utilize. I will say that the diagnosis was traumatic but subsequent sessions haven’t been dramatic. I can see how some may find these kinds of sessions as traumatic. For me, these sessions are equally comforting in that some of my thoughts and fears are validated.