Knowing oneself is also knowing one's limits. To deal with a doctor or therapist, a fortiori, means relying on experts who will be such, but will always have limits as human beings.
The same patience and care that you put in listening to your symptoms, in understanding the nature of the body, try to adopt it also in the relationship with those who care for you. It is a real work on the predisposition that, in the long run, can give excellent effects on your natural well-being. With fruitful results for both parties.
Let us look closely at how to improve the understanding between doctor or therapist and patient .
Write down the symptoms
In order to facilitate the understanding with the doctor or the complementary medicine therapist it can be useful, before resorting to it, to write down one's symptoms, mentally or really in writing. Holding a sort of mental or real diary, paper of pain . Ask yourself: when it gets worse, if it is triggered by particular factors, if the nature and frequency of pain episodes changes, if other symptoms develop.
This "logbook" of a ship that is your body can help the doctor and the therapist a lot. Much more than approximate and vague answers to questions that will still be asked to you, if you are in front of a serious professional.
A tip: that this agenda is productive in the sense of helping relationships and does not become a kind of slavery that creates further discomfort. Don't concentrate on yourself. Pin up only what is really relevant. To prevent this aspect of essentiality from failing and not hypochondriac redundancy, return to the breath as often as you can and ask yourself if that pain really exists.
The agreement between doctor / therapist and patient
Try to be precise and clear when you explain how you feel . Imagine having to re-explain it to yourself. The description of pain is important.
When the specialist gives you an overview of your condition after having visited and seen the exams, follow the description carefully. Ask well the reason for any further examination that will eventually prompt you to do, view the results together. Can you take notes, who forbids it?
Make sure you understand how and when to start a new care. If you take medications and the care you are taking requires them, understand the dosage best. If the treatment does not seem to give the desired results or side effects occur, do not stop suddenly, but talk to your doctor.
Remember that no therapist or doctor reads your mind. You cannot presume that they know some aspects of your life, related to the condition you are living, to the disorder you are trying to understand.
The success of a medical and non-medical therapy
Much of this understanding determines the success of the therapy, whether we are talking about official medicine or natural or complementary therapies. When this mutual trust is interrupted, perhaps it is the case to change. However, it is not a step to be taken lightly.
If you start to believe that those who care for you are making mistakes in approaching your case, if you suspect the generation of some form of veiled dependence, if you feel a strong appeal to other therapeutic forms, that they are alternative medicines, complementary to other aspects of official medicine. In all these cases, stop and reflect in silence. The answers need space and time. Concedetevelo. There is no real presisone either from the outside or from within what lives there.