Today was another bleak day (in a long line of bleak days). I was dumped by my therapist. After informing me about her leaving the practice, she tried to direct me to another person outside of her current practice. The problem was that the “new” person does not take my insurance. Insurance is the most important because of my severe money crises that I currently face. She stated that she would have recommended a change even if she was staying. I highly doubt this. Another insult was when she told me that another person in the practice was doing that same work as she was. But for some bizarre reason, she did not refer me to her (current ) coworker but to an outsider. Given these two ‘coincidences’, I come to the conclusion she just dumped/ditched me. She must have felt that I too far gone and she did not want to waste her “precious” time on a hopeless case like myself. I look back at the whole experience as a waste of my time and money. All I was to her was just a paycheck. I doubt if I will ever believe in the mental health profession anymore.
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I’m having a hard time following your reasoning here. Surely it should be easy to tell if she’s actually leaving her practice? If she is indeed leaving it, then she’s not just dumping you. (It is incredibly unlikely she is leaving her practice just to get away from you personally, unless maybe you’re a stalker who has physically threatened her.)
Why do you doubt she would have recommended a change even if she were staying? If your doubts are well-founded, that also seems to imply she’s not just dumping you. If she had stayed and NOT recommended a change, then she wouldn’t have been dumping you.
Also, if you were just a paycheck to her, then she wouldn’t have regarded herself as wasting her time on you. She gets paid regardless of whether you’re a hopeless case or not. Actually, the hopeless cases might provide the steadiest income.
As for the co-worker, maybe she already has a full load. That happens sometimes.
I do sympathize with your general skepticism about the mental health profession. It hasn’t been very helpful to me either. Personally, though, I don’t care very much how much they care. If they care a lot but can’t help me, eh, what good is that? Actually, it’s sort of nice to be able to rant to them about whatever and not have them take offense; and if they don’t care, then they’re less likely to be offended.
The insurance situation in the U.S. is nasty. It’s up to you whether to look for another psychotherapist, but don’t let your feelings of being “dumped” stop you.
No.. I was treated like this from the get-go. I don’t think they care about the patients and only the money they can surmass from their “victims”
I was forced to go to them in the first place but they were never any help for anything at all, ever. They didn’t even act human, the acted like robotic scripts that they use with every other passer through
I wish for them to burn in hell (sorry), but what can you do?
Human decency is rare.
My money reasoning is I think they dump you when they think they have received enough money from you then make you start all over again to pay out someone else.
i always hear how everything’s about money these days, of course the medical field’s affected too. i think it’s because humanity’s silently being stripped of it’s humanity, so the qualities that once made us human, i think we’re losing it, because most are so engorged with social media and mindless self-indulgence. there doesn’t seem to be much soul left… i’m sure you could find someone that really cares, but you’d have to really dig, sadly. it’s important to connect with them on a soul level. don’t just pay someone to listen and offer advice, and prescribe medicine.