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Men: never go to a female therapist, they will NEVER be able to understand you from a man’s perspective. All they see is abundance, with men chasing them and paying attention to them, and will never understand how few choices those men in the bottom-80% are left with.
Uhh Ohh
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.
It's honestly hard to imagine how someone who's this shit can even attain the title of "therapist".
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.
Seem like just opening up to a friend and them questioning things. Doesn't sound like a proper therapist.
Find a better therapist. Just because someone goes to school and gets a professional credential doesn't mean they don't suck at their job.
I'd still trust those more than I would a therapist without even professional credentials.
Why talk to a professional when I can simply talk to my very normal, very mentally healthy anons on the green text site?
Probably fake, but a therapist should never say anything like that. I'm in my 30's and a virigin, and no doctor, therapist, etc., has ever asked me anything close to that. And if they did, I'd be searching for a new therapist. Wouldn't even finish the session.
Jesus Christ, that tops the worst thing I've ever heard a therapist say.
I heard a tale about a therapist in Iowa who after talking about issues with anxiety recommended eating brains shaped foods like, broccoli and walnuts.
You still don’t know a therapist has ever said this though.
On today's episode of Bullshit That Never Happened...
As someone who’s had a uh… not great experience with mental health care, this story is totally believable to me.
Either:
Why not both?
I had a therapist that eventually deemed me too dangerous to myself to be in their care, so she upgraded me to super-therapy where I have to go like 9 hours a week and work with a group and like 5 therapists but I still don't get much value out of it :c so yeah, therapy definitely isn't for everyone
sounds like you got bumped up to a higher level of care. are you in IOP? that's quite standard, especially for someone struggling severely but doesn't want to go to inpatient
some therapists freak out a bit over suicide risk a bit much, but there's a good chance that their recommendation was justified and the right call. I recommend talking about your frustration with your original therapist if possible, or just your favorite of the 5 if not.
I hope you're getting a lot of good skills
sounds like providing good therapy isn't for every therapist
level of care determinations are an important part of therapy. let's not just bandwagon here.