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more or less · 2003-11-19 5:21 pm

i could probably benefit from some sensitivety training...

though, i'd rather just get another mean, bitchy, confident girlfriend.

they cost about the same....

thekingalrock · 2003-11-19 5:26 pm

The speech therapy was worthless. I really don't care if I have correct tongue position when I saw my S's, so shut up!

lol

I had some family sessions as a young child (I can hardly remember them, I think I blocked them out) and a handful one-on-ones at the high school.

Maxmike · 2003-11-19 7:11 pm

Wow, this is perhapse the highest concentration of people who have actually gone to therapy in of the forums I visit. I've never gone myself. Maybe I need to, but I wouldn't want someone to analyze all the crazy stuff I think of. I'd be too worried they'd lock me up in some asylum... Maybe I'm paranoid. You know you need therapy when you're afraid of letting people know what you think. I'd never be able to open up and confess all of my thoughts to anybody. Ever.

Short Circuit · 2003-11-19 7:34 pm

Who needs therapy when you have mind/reality altering substances close by ?

W

Maxmike · 2003-11-19 8:27 pm

I'm an artist, my brain's wired to see pretty colors without such substances.

I wouldn't want to know what drugs would do to me.

Roc Kit · 2003-11-20 1:19 pm

I've talked to a shrink on a weekly basis a couple of different times - never been recommended for drugs, though I've certainly self-medicated often enough. Modern Psychotherapy is a very mixed bag, certainly, but I would lean towards getting professional help and keeping an open mind - it is very easy to delude yourself about yourself.

Never watched Dr. Phil, so I can't offer an opinion on him.
I think you need therapy to help cure this insanely bad habit of resurrecting year-old threads that you've developed.

Well, everybody else here seems to be just fine with this thread, so maybe I'm not the one with the problem. After all, sanity is always defined by majority vote...

And I forgot about Eliza. Yes, she facillitated my becoming the man I am today.

PuddleMonkey · 2003-11-20 3:04 pm

I've talked to a shrink on a weekly basis a couple of different times - never been recommended for drugs, though I've certainly self-medicated often enough. Modern Psychotherapy is a very mixed bag, certainly, but I would lean towards getting professional help and keeping an open mind - it is very easy to delude yourself about yourself.

Never watched Dr. Phil, so I can't offer an opinion on him.
I think you need therapy to help cure this insanely bad habit of resurrecting year-old threads that you've developed.
Well, everybody else here seems to be just fine with this thread, so maybe I'm not the one with the problem. After all, sanity is always defined by majority vote...

Wait a minute, being insane is a problem? Been working out pretty well for me so far. tongue

Malkin · 2003-11-20 3:18 pm

The one time that I spoke with a shrink (I was failing out of college again, and this was stressing me out) he talked with me for about 20 minutes before trying to prescribe two different anti-depressants.

I mean ... one session and he want to put me on mood altering drugs.

The same thing happened to me.

I was having a rough time after my mother died and I needed someone to talk to. I went to see a counselor and within the first 15 minutes she was already talking about medication. I gave her my list of reasons why I didn't want to take any drugs, especially without trying other methods first, and she backed off a bit, but the second time I went in she practically tried to corner me in the room with a doctor and some pills. "But you're so depressed!" she pleaded.

Of course I was depressed. My mother had just died. It's not like I was sad for no good reason. I never went back.

Oh, I should also mention that during my first session; my counselor actually cried. Yes, SHE cried. My story was just too much for her. What a professional. roll

PuddleMonkey · 2003-11-20 4:07 pm

Oh, do I have a story you will all love. My best friend is clinically depressed but never actually sought help until her late 20s. She took Prozac for many years and saw a therapist regularly . . . that is, until she confided to her therapist that she had accidentally become pregnant and intended to have an abortion. The therapist tried to convince my friend that she was ready to have a baby even though she was severely depressed, suicidal at times and on hardcore medication. The therapist even called her at home to beg that she reconsider her options. It was a nightmare.

Marc · 2003-11-20 4:41 pm

Oh, do I have a story you will all love. My best friend is clinically depressed but never actually sought help until her late 20s. She took Prozac for many years and saw a therapist regularly . . . that is, until she confided to her therapist that she had accidentally become pregnant and intended to have an abortion. The therapist tried to convince my friend that she was ready to have a baby even though she was severely depressed, suicidal at times and on hardcore medication. The therapist even called her at home to beg that she reconsider her options. It was a nightmare.

I think that voilates all sorts of policies about not becoming emotionally attached to your patients

PuddleMonkey · 2003-11-20 4:53 pm

Oh, do I have a story you will all love. My best friend is clinically depressed but never actually sought help until her late 20s. She took Prozac for many years and saw a therapist regularly . . . that is, until she confided to her therapist that she had accidentally become pregnant and intended to have an abortion. The therapist tried to convince my friend that she was ready to have a baby even though she was severely depressed, suicidal at times and on hardcore medication. The therapist even called her at home to beg that she reconsider her options. It was a nightmare.
I think that voilates all sorts of policies about not becoming emotionally attached to your patients

I think it's more a case of a therapist allowing her personal feelings about abortion to cloud her professional judgment.

Phydeaux · 2003-11-20 9:06 pm

Oh, do I have a story you will all love. My best friend is clinically depressed but never actually sought help until her late 20s. She took Prozac for many years and saw a therapist regularly . . . that is, until she confided to her therapist that she had accidentally become pregnant and intended to have an abortion. The therapist tried to convince my friend that she was ready to have a baby even though she was severely depressed, suicidal at times and on hardcore medication. The therapist even called her at home to beg that she reconsider her options. It was a nightmare.
I think that voilates all sorts of policies about not becoming emotionally attached to your patients
I think it's more a case of a therapist allowing her personal feelings about abortion to cloud her professional judgment.

So wait a minute.

The abortionist side claim that the fetus is simply another developing part of a woman's body that, within rights, can be removed at will. Like a tumor.

A doctor can do a double-take if they feel the mental/emotional state (as shown to be imbalanced) of a person will do harm to "themselves" (meaning them, which by the previous definition, which includes the tampering of that little "tumor").

So which is it?

PuddleMonkey · 2003-11-20 9:35 pm

Oh, do I have a story you will all love. My best friend is clinically depressed but never actually sought help until her late 20s. She took Prozac for many years and saw a therapist regularly . . . that is, until she confided to her therapist that she had accidentally become pregnant and intended to have an abortion. The therapist tried to convince my friend that she was ready to have a baby even though she was severely depressed, suicidal at times and on hardcore medication. The therapist even called her at home to beg that she reconsider her options. It was a nightmare.
I think that voilates all sorts of policies about not becoming emotionally attached to your patients
I think it's more a case of a therapist allowing her personal feelings about abortion to cloud her professional judgment.
A doctor can do a double-take if they feel the mental/emotional state (as shown to be imbalanced) of a person will do harm to "themselves" (meaning them, which by the previous definition, which includes the tampering of that little "tumor").

I'm afraid I don't understand this sentence. Also, I don't believe that a fetus is a tumor, so I'm not the person to ask. More importantly, I don't want to make this about abortion because that's not the point. For a therapist to call a patient at home to repeatedly beg her not to have an abortion is inappropriate and unprofessional . . . it's a betrayal of the patient's confidence.

Roc Kit · 2003-11-21 1:19 pm

And this is exactly why I will continue to use and abuse my power of thread necromancy...

Phydeaux · 2003-11-21 1:31 pm

And this is exactly why I will continue to use and abuse my power of thread necromancy...

Let it dieee...

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