no, i can relate… last time i went to the doc he was interested in what i was there for, and tried to be my unlicensed therapist… literally, not figuratively, he wanted to have therapy sessions….
my psychiatrist thought that was a bad idea for a number of reasons….
(and now my next argument with a troll will bring this up).
actually i was in there for some back pain and some other stuff and he was disinterested, but did refer me to PT….
he had started therapy himself, due to an existential crisis dealing with covid and trump as a doctor…
i know what it’s like to have some social anxiety, and a specific phobia of doctors and hospitals (childhood stuff)… but it’s worth it because they have some very counterintuitive exercises to target specific areas that are worth learning….
maybe start with some history of injury that led to the pain before talking about it?
i’ve found it’s useful to mention i don’t want pain medication and will refuse it, because they like to assume weird people are drug addicts when they talk about pain.