Doctor doctor
I just got back from a session with my therapist. I don’t really know if the session was good because I did most of the talking. We didn’t talk about my sister much though. We talked more about mom. My sessions are usually just me ranting about my mom so that’s nothing new but he wants mom to have a session with him next week. Let’s see how that goes.
I got irritated with him and told him off a bit. I told him that I don’t think Prodin is working and maybe I need a different medicine. He prescribed me Prodiethrin (?) which he gave me before already and didn’t work. So I asked him why he doesn’t keep a record of what he prescribes to his patients and his answer struck me dumb. He said “Hmmm. Bat nga kaya?” (Hmm. I wonder why.) WTF?! I wanted to smack him after he said that. I’m beginning to suspect that he’s a fake and he’s just in it for money. But I did some quick thinking and remembered that my sessions with him are helping me somehow. But he really hardly takes notes. If he does, they’re usually on loose paper and there’s no record for each patient. Surprisingly, he still remembers the things we talked about before but I still think he should keep a record. Since I wanted to know the details of his session with mom, I told him to take notes for that. I know it’s bad but I feel like he’s easy to bully and I’m tempted to bully him more.
Nice. I had to tell my therapist that she was being too indirect with me and that she needed to change her style. I think she was pretty surprised to have me speak up like that. I hate counselors that don’t take notes, makes you wonder if they’re even paying attention to you. What I hate even more are folks that answer questions with another question. That’s such a psychology thing to do. I think my training as a mediator and crisis counselor gets in the way of my sessions. I find myself overanalyzing the therapist’s technique. But unfortunately I won’t have too many more opportunities to challenge my therapist since my insurance is about to run out
I’ll just have to content myself with reading your tales of bullying your therapist 
How much does therapy cost there without insurance? I have this notion that it could go as high as $300. I remember paying $80 something bucks just to check if I was anemic when I was heavy bleeding. That caught me by surprise so much! A blood check like that costs around P300 here. BTW, how come you couldn’t renew your insurance?