Therapists I Could Live Without

[Manic11]

As I was walking out the door he said "make sure you lock your car doors. There are a lot of strange people out there".:dontknow:

Well Liv,
He would know. He's obviously one of them! LOL

LOL Manic...and how much did those pearls of wisdom cost? Seriously...some of thos people should not be allowed anywhere near people with trauma issues...if anyone at all.

Amen! I'm not sure. My mom works for the government and they recommended her. :dontknow: Lol But hey...that's the government for ya!

"you're 21, I'd give anything to be 21 again, just be happy and forget all of this". GRRRR...WTF does age have to do with it??

Yes! I've been told that a million times! Kinda glad someone else has... lol Don't mean it in a bad way, Luth! Sooo frustrating... I meant to add it to "what to never say to a PTSD sufferer" but forgot... Ha.

Manic

 

[Marlene]

I see a psychiatrist who really winds me up with his pointless and irritating comments....

OMG, my psychiatrist was just like this. It got to the point where I just took her lead and said what it was obvious she wanted to hear, got my script and left.

and thank my lucky stars that the psychotherapist I see is so much better at her job than he is....

Oh amen! The only reason I put up with this dippy broad was to get my meds.

 

[Anton]

I've had a few talks with "my" therapist and I like her.
Except that the last time we talked (we didn't really get to the point where I'd actually call it "therapy") she told me she didn't have time for me and that she'd get me another therapist and she'd call me.

That was 15 days ago.

I'll call her workplace tomorrow and raise a stink. I'm angry-ish.
I'm doing sorta okay and possibly don't need therapy, but I do feel a bit insulted.

 

[2quilt]

I once had a therapist who, during therapy sessions, kept her elderly mother (who had alzheimers) in her locked car, parked just outside the office back door where the T could see her mom by looking over my shoulder and out the opened door.

Couldn't get a sitter, huh?

So in the middle of me pouring out my feelings, T jumps up and walks out of the office and goes to sit in the car with her mother, who was struggling to get out of the locked car.

When T returns to me, she sits down and asks me, in a very condescending tone, "Well, what are you going to do about your weight?"

We were not even discussing my weight at all. I got up and left. I notified my health insurance company, but they claimed that the T did nothing wrong or unethical or even rude.


Then there was the psychiatrist who asked my religion, (which is none of his business) and then simply demanded that I go to church and get Jesus and my life would be perfect. I am Atheist. I am happy to be unburdened by religion and I happily reported him to the insurance company, all the psychiatric associations he belongs to and state board of psychiatry, none of whom thought that the psychiatrist did anything unethical or illegal. He was doing me a favor.

So the health insurance made a deal with another local T, who made me pay the copay in advance of meeting him, then refused to treat me or even respond to my questions because the health insurance person told him that I am not Christian, and he (the therapist) was very Christian, and so he also, refused to even speak to me.

 

[SpringRain]

I had a therapist once who told me to open up and feel free to talk, emphasizing this was a safe place and that he had done a LOT of work with people with PTSD, especially veterans (I'm not a veteran by the way.) Once I started getting into my trauma story he got spooked by how "severe" it was and told me he couldn't help me after all - he was very pale. I probably should have gotten a clue to his skills when he told me that the people he worked with usually spent most of their session time hiding under the table! Sheesh! Live and learn!

 

[shadow-light]

Ive only had 3 therapists... One of them was good, but after only 5 sessions she referred me :/


The other 2:

Well one told me I was being "melodramatic" and then went on to some analogy about people throwing bricks through car windows and how yes we are going to be upset for a bit, but then we get over it, and that's what I have to do...

The other told me that "it could have been worse, at least no-one died" :/

 

[Ursa]

I hate the "could have been worse" speech.
I wonder if they would think like that if it was them instead of us there.

 

[heather q]

I've had a several really bad T's, the one I have now is very good, but a few years ago I had a therapist who played tennis with my ex, she had decided that he hadn't got a problem and that I was the only one that needed fixing. When I was upset that 'they' played tennis together, my ex said 'well, it was only once.' It was once too many and totally out of line. I haven't had anything to do with either one for years and I'm finally working on the problems that the therapist helped to create for me, she was threatening and I was scared of her. I'm still not in touch with any anger but I am able to talk about now. That is progress.

That will not happen to me again although the theme has been my story.

Heather

 

[blackdove]

I like my therapist. I hope she likes me. I think she does. Not going to ask though :-)

 

[Manic11]

Yes...there are some good therapists and some bad...
I'm glad you have one you can depend on.
:smile:

Manic

 

[Freddy_hiding_less]

There is one important thing to remember here, there are also many times when my distrust for my therapist forced me to become clear to myself and to him/her about what was going on, sometimes this was hard difficult work to get precise enough.

It has also been very rewarding and from there also the therapist have sometimes surprised me with bringing it much further than I've could have done, once over this threshold of understanding.

 

[trapped]

I ended up in the psych hospital this past week for a really brief period of time... which I was quite pissed off about being there at all... anyway, all the staff there- the nurses, therapists, dietician, etc. kept getting on my case about how I need to eat more blah blah blah (actually had a seizure yesterday from the sudden increase in calories they forced me to eat in order to be allowed to go home!). Then one of the staff, as soon as she was done giving me the "you need to eat more" speech that they must have all been told to give or something, she adds "well, you're not THAT thin, so I don't understand why you think you have a problem" I swear I about just went off and nearly sucker punched her.

A therapist I used to have told me I was too old to have night terrors, and wasn't old enough to have PTSD... hmm, I didn't know they had started using age as a diagnostic criteria.... that same therapist also told me to "just ignore" the flashbacks.