Posted by Dinah on April 7, 2014, at 4:17:07
In reply to Re: don't know what to do, posted by baseball55 on April 5, 2014, at 20:43:09
I don't much like many mental health professionals either. My therapist always wondered why I stuck it out with him when I usually cut and run within a few sessions.
I don't really feel anger or contempt towards most of them. Except for the one whose additional authorized information consisted of the fact that my therapist wasn't coming back, and if it were her being abandoned like that she'd want to curl up in a hole and die. And then said she was glad she had the chance to meet me. I think I may hate her. She ought not have called me in with *that* additional information. I felt quite kindly to her when she just told me he wasn't dying.
And biofeedback guy I didn't like at all. He thought he was Dr. Phil, and was annoyed when all my indicators went nuts when he walked in the room. Well really... It's not bad enough that he terrified me, he had to tell me off for being terrified?
The rest I just didn't much like. Therapy is kind of intimate. It's not like a regular doctor. I only like at best half of my regular doctors and I'm anxious around even the ones I like. But that's ok. I don't need to like them or to feel comfortable with them. Mental health stuff is different.
When I was feeling particularly rotten lately I called one of the people my therapist had *personally* recommended should something happen to him. But I was glad he was out of town for a few weeks. I doubt I'd have liked him even as a therapist to get over therapy. Most therapists are so d*mn judgmental. Very few have the light nonjudgmental tone my therapist took. He might have never studied DBT but he sure had some of the best characteristics of holding acceptance and the need for change in balance.
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