RussellSue
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Has anyone had any luck working with them?
I have worked with them 3 times and just fired them for the final time and I think I have officially concluded that they have done basically nothing to train their staff in dealing with the mentally ill - especially the mentally ill with higher education or intellect.
I've worked or been in school basically the entire time since I was first hospitalized over flashbacks about 20 years ago - part time work was the norm, but I was able to do that. I went to school full time and then some and sometimes did juggle work and school.
I was working full time when I first met with this last counselor and had been for several months - she still managed to comment that I may not be able to work. She also told me that my education might be a barrier to employment and that I may have spent 15 years in the wrong sort of therapy. I was given basically no encouragement, at all to continue.
Six months later, absolutely nothing had been accomplished with my VR case. I may have actually moved backwards. But I was in contact and trying to do something, anything - the entire time.
I just wonder if anyone has ever gotten anywhere with these people or if they just blatantly fail at dealing with PTSD. My counselor basically told me that Portland was bad at mental illness - like I can't see our tents lining the streets - But it makes me feel like I am a lot lower functioning than I think my record shows that I am. They did nothing but discourage me. Of course, I got the standard come back when you feel well enough to do so email. I responded by saying that I know I am a capable person and that I am pretty sure that was the problem in the first place. No thanks - I can do bad by myself, basically.
Truth be told, I feel like I was discriminated against - like my counselor just held my file in limbo long enough to get me to quit because she didn't know what to do with me.
My husband's attitude is that I am perfectly capable of moving forward without their help. I still feel somewhat insecure about that, though I did tell my counselor that she could burn my file if possible because I would not be back - so going back now would really be embarrassing ?
I will figure things out but geez, why did I go through all of that just to have my counselor not help me at all? I've had a case with them for like 2 years and this is the final outcome: one big fat zero.
I have worked with them 3 times and just fired them for the final time and I think I have officially concluded that they have done basically nothing to train their staff in dealing with the mentally ill - especially the mentally ill with higher education or intellect.
I've worked or been in school basically the entire time since I was first hospitalized over flashbacks about 20 years ago - part time work was the norm, but I was able to do that. I went to school full time and then some and sometimes did juggle work and school.
I was working full time when I first met with this last counselor and had been for several months - she still managed to comment that I may not be able to work. She also told me that my education might be a barrier to employment and that I may have spent 15 years in the wrong sort of therapy. I was given basically no encouragement, at all to continue.
Six months later, absolutely nothing had been accomplished with my VR case. I may have actually moved backwards. But I was in contact and trying to do something, anything - the entire time.
I just wonder if anyone has ever gotten anywhere with these people or if they just blatantly fail at dealing with PTSD. My counselor basically told me that Portland was bad at mental illness - like I can't see our tents lining the streets - But it makes me feel like I am a lot lower functioning than I think my record shows that I am. They did nothing but discourage me. Of course, I got the standard come back when you feel well enough to do so email. I responded by saying that I know I am a capable person and that I am pretty sure that was the problem in the first place. No thanks - I can do bad by myself, basically.
Truth be told, I feel like I was discriminated against - like my counselor just held my file in limbo long enough to get me to quit because she didn't know what to do with me.
My husband's attitude is that I am perfectly capable of moving forward without their help. I still feel somewhat insecure about that, though I did tell my counselor that she could burn my file if possible because I would not be back - so going back now would really be embarrassing ?
I will figure things out but geez, why did I go through all of that just to have my counselor not help me at all? I've had a case with them for like 2 years and this is the final outcome: one big fat zero.