Seriously. When you’re as depressed, unable to trust, wounded, afraid, anxious, angry, and lonely as many of us are, can we really be helped by a therapist? I used to think so but it almost seems like it makes things worse because the therapist thinks they want to help but have no idea what they’re in for. Once they find out they can’t handle it and start taking things personally and then react instead of guiding.
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For me It made this a whole lot worse, they messed up the confidential part, and sent an in depth review of the session to my mother instead of to me, hence causing major problems at home as well as in every other aspect of my life. oh and lost all capacity to trust anyone. no they ask questions that are so very condesending, judgemental and mildly insulting that make you feel worse about yourself.
AND…There’s part of you that knows they will escalate the situation if they think you would or have self-harmed/planned suicide. They have an obligation to saving lives…Not NECESSARILY helping them.
The best therapists, I’ve found, are the ones that are screwed in the head themselves. They’re amazing
I’ve been around the block a few times. The ones I’ve found most helpful were female (as a male, I don’t connect well with male therapists) and that worked “out of the box”. What I mean by that is that they were able and willing to get into guided meditation, hypnotherapy, past life regression, EMDR, etc. Excuse my French but FUCK Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (talk yourself into living “as if” everything was fine).
The problem has been for me that just about the time the therapeutic relationship started to really work the therapists went away for one reason or another and I’d lose my emotional investment and had to try and start all over again. So, to hell with it.