Knowing oneself is also knowing one’s limits. Having to deal with a doctor or a therapist , even more so, means relying on experts who will be such, but will always have, as humans, limits.

The same patience and care that you will place 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 predisposition which, in the long run, can give excellent effects on the side of your natural well-being . With fruitful results for both sides.

Let’s take a closer look at how to improve the understanding between doctor or therapist and patient .

Write down the symptoms

To facilitate the agreement with the doctor or complementary medicine therapist, it may be useful, before resorting to it, to write down your symptoms, mentally or really in writing. Keeping some sort of mental or real, paper diary of pain . Ask yourself: when does it get 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 vessel that is your body can help the doctor and therapist a lot. Much more than approximate and vague answers to questions that will be asked anyway, if you find yourself in front of a serious professional.

A piece of advice: that this agenda is productive in the sense of a helping relationship and does not become a kind of slavery that creates further discomfort. Don’t obsessively focus on yourself. Write down only what is really relevant. In order not to let this aspect of essentiality and non hypochondriacal redundancy disappear, go back to the breath as often as you can and ask yourself if that pain really exists.

The understanding between doctor / therapist and patient

Try to be specific and clear when explaining how you feel . Imagine having to re-explain it to yourself. The description of the pain is important.

When the specialist will give you an overview of your condition after seeing you and seeing the exams, follow the description carefully. Ask well the reason for any further examination that will eventually push you to do, view the results together. You can take notes, who forbids you?

Make sure you understand how and when to start any new treatment. If you are taking medications and the treatment you are following requires them, understand the posology better. If the treatment does not seem to give desired results or side effects occur, do not stop suddenly, but talk to your doctor.

Remember that no therapist or doctor reads thoughts. You cannot assume that they know some aspects of your experience, related to the condition you live, to the disorder you are trying to understand .

The success of 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 broken, perhaps it is time to change. However, it is not a step to be taken lightly.

If you begin to believe that those who treat you are making mistakes in the approach to your case, if you suspect the generation of some form of veiled addiction , if you feel a strong call towards other forms of therapy, which are alternative medicines , complementary to other aspects of official medicine. In all these cases, stop and reflect in the silence. Answers need space and time. Give it to yourself. There is no real presisone neither from the outside nor from the inside of what lives there.