I didn't receive the link for my 1st CBT session as promised so e-mailed and 'phoned and was promised it would arrive 3 days before
it didn't - no record in e-mail
no record of any invite in my "teams" for it being sent
so I contacted and alerted them to this and requested they send the appointment to my e-mail address
It was promised to be sent 15 minutes before
I replied and said send it to my e-mail address
it didn't arrive
eventually it is sent 3 minutes after the appointment started.
so I figure OK that's not a problem
meeting goes bad... I reckon that I was trying to be too proactive - probably trying to take charge :-(
Eventually in the meeting I asked the therapist whether they had sent invite to someone else.
They responded by asking me whether I was accusing them of sending it to someone else.
I said no - I was asking them whether they had. I explained that I needed to be able to trust them.
Asked then how many autistic people they had treated - they said in the hundreds.
At which point the therapist said that they were uncomfortable and they were terminating the consultation and would be contacting their manager about it.
What I would appear to have done is inadvertently upset someone (pretty obvious that I was doing so already by their reaction to my behaviour in my asking them what they understood about autism ( no clear indication to me that they understood concept of alexithymia and that autism constitutes a specific part of the spectrum and wanting to stick to their "script" e.g. not flexible to me ironically.)
Anyway I'm distressed reckon they are distressed.
Wnat next?
Ideas anyone please
