Recent content by Bragado Jansing

Thanks, I'd appreciate this.

Here's how I conducted the search: Did a google search for CBT (which works for me) plus trauma or PTSD. I made a list of all the service providers who listed experience in CBT and advertised experience with PTSD. I also went onto P. Today's search and selected "CBT" and "PTSD". I created a...

I'm probably not going to give up on finding a therapist since I'd like to talk about this stuff to someone, but right now probably isn't the best time since I'm focusing on looking for work. I was hoping I could find someone decent quick, but that has not happened, so my only option is doing...

I understand that, I just get bugged out when it seems like people are closing ranks and say that my experiences of something are wrong. Because they aren't wrong. I've had some really bad experiences with therapists in the past. And I'm currently having a lot of difficulty finding the right...

You aren't, and other people haven't. I shouldn't take it so personally when people want to blame the victim, it's a common defense mechanism, especially when there isn't much anyone can do about all the bad stuff in the world. When I say I was abused by highly intelligent sociopathic freaks...

Yeah, except that you said it was me who was the problem. C'mon, you can just scroll up and read it. I think I'm done with this place for a while.

Sure. Due to my abuse I was a very compliant person, had a very poor grasp on thinking for myself, etc. So this therapist led me by the nose. She'd puff up my ego with all sorts of fantastic, blanket statements about how amazing and wonderful I was. She'd tell me my family wasn't abusive, that...

I'm definitely in this place. So you're wrong. I was in this place 2 years ago when a therapist took advantage of my problems. Just because you lucked out on a good experience doesn't make it evidence of a healthy system.

I wouldn't mind working on the emotional issues, but I'm not sure how many people can relate to the emotion of Lovecraftian horror. You know? I've induced temporary madness in people just by sharing a little bit of what I've experienced. How I'm still standing and functioning I have no idea...

Sure. If a person wants to harm themselves, that's their right, and if they lack the desire to change that, then that's also their right and choice. A person outside the individual can't do much about that other than provide treatment. This makes me realize there's an entirely different side of...

Sure. Say a doctor is concerned that you're smoking and says it's bad for your health and you should stop. He's not doing it because of a "relationship", but because it's his job as a medical professional to say that. That's what I'm saying. I'm not talking about "opening up" in some mewling...

Ideal therapist ... here's my personal vision for it. Throw out the "therapeutic relationship" aspect of it. This is a red herring that provides no help or benefit to people because it requires a two-sided delusion that goes beyond the usual roles people play in life, because the therapist...

If this is what the therapist's job is, then maybe the job of therapy needs to change. I'm sorry, but what I've experienced here is completely nonsensical, and in some instances downright dangerous for people. And it makes sense why I've heard so many stories from people about incompetent...

OK, so I've talked to nearly 20 therapists and met a handful of them. I detailed them my life story, and they were basically, "uhuh, ok." Most of them said they couldn't help, and the other ones who offered to take me on as a client basically ignored everything I told them. Now that I'm...

Sorry you have to deal with a public defender. I interned at the Public Defender's office in law school. The only cases that mattered to them were the ones that would get their names in the papers. I made the mistake of actually working hard and winning a positive disposition for one of our...