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[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 240 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I feel like I need to say that if this was your experience you had a really shit therapist and deserve better. I've felt like this with a therapist before and it's terrible. It's ok to drop a therapist over this and try a different one.

[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago

Seem like just opening up to a friend and them questioning things. Doesn't sound like a proper therapist.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 28 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You can actually say "ass" here, btw.

Fuckin' mainstream social media-ass comment.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No they're on .world so bad words like "ass" deal psychic damage to them.

[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm on .world.

Ass.
Fuck.
Shit.

[–] crapton_america@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Stop, you’ll get fucking hurt!

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read it as “better help uhh therapist” because of the stupid ass self censorship. I’m not blaming the user for doing it, just annoyed for natural real world language getting hamstrung to satisfy advertisers. How long until “tisk tisk tisk! You can’t say ‘ahh’, that’s a naughty word!”?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's really, genuinely never made sense to me. If I'm going to say "freaking cold" it has the exact same meaning as "fucking cold". So what's the difference? Yet one is acceptable and one is, *clutches pearls*, a bad word. :O

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Please mom, not the soap!

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"ahh" has a better ring to it than "ass"

[–] dufkm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Personally I prefer "arse" with an uppity RP (Received Pronunciation) accent.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

I'm not going to downvote you for this, because you're allowed to think that, but I want you to know that I want to because you're wrong. Lol

[–] DesolateMood@lemm.ee -2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah but saying ahh is funny

Ass is just crass (also, this has the same energy as redditors who complain about emojis)

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, if the specific word you want to use seems to be an inappropriate tone, maybe find a different way to say what you're trying to say instead of injecting a filter-bypass replacement for the same word you didn't feel was an appropriate tone?

Betterhelp-coded therapist

Sounds like Betterhelp's caliber of therapists

Lemme guess, this "therapist" was via Betterhelp

For a couple of examples

Edit: I see you didn't post the original comment. Oops!

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago
[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ahh means ass? Drag is out of touch.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's an AAVE based, censorship-born, slang term.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My bet is this is fake. A large part of incel groups is making sure no one seeks help, so they stay longer. If you demonize therapists then that's one more path to then existing removed.

[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know better than to assume that anything posted to 4chan actually happened, but I also know from personal experience that moments just like this one DO happen to people. So even if this particular story is a fiction or was intended to serve some other purpose, it's portraying a familiar moment for many people and I wanted to acknowledge that and encourage people to seek better help.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But don't seek it through Better Help.

[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago

😁 true that

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

So many people have this experience and never come back. Took me 4 to find the right one. (Meaning good at their job and had a good raport with me)

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

I feel like I would be a better therapist than this and I have no training or desire to get in that field! But I sure as shit wouldn't go out of my way to shame someone with low self-esteem who's literally trying to improve themself. If that conversation was verbatim, I'm not exaggerating when I said the therapist should be suspended.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's honestly hard to imagine how someone who's this shit can even attain the title of "therapist".

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 2 points 6 days ago

Welcome to America, where we have degree mills you can buy doctorates from and an understaffed health industry that will take whoever they can get. Never trust that a medical professional will act with your best interest in mind until you've established a relationship with them and know they're actually competent.