dragons and demons
the mental institution - that reminds me of how, when the community college licensed clinical social worker asked "how are you doing," i answered "depressed."
she was like "oh my god. are you thinking about hurting yourself or anyone else?". (rolls eyes).
depression is a diagnosis, that i disclosed, in writing, on the form that she made me fill out.
depression is not an emotion. "sad" is an emotion.
depression is not a violation of the Mandated Reporter Law.
the LCSW (among other professionals) acted like the correct answer to "how are you doing" is "perfect". all other answers are wrong, and the punishment for a wrong answer is 5150.
emotions are: happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared
not my opinion. those are the official emotions
the way almost everyone (including many psychological counselors) act, is that they act like emotions are: happy, mad, bad, depressed, sorry
fear of 5150 and et cetera. that is one of numerous reasons why i avoided counselors, until about age 21 or so.
that, and the condecending attitude, "are you a happy child?" a counselor had the nerve to tell me. then the counselor told me that the reason why junior high school customers bullied me was b/c they were jealous that i did better at school than them and "if you work hard, you grow up you can be whatever you wanna be when you grow up,". she told me that when i was 16.
but the counselor is not telepathic. she does not know the reason why someone, that she has never interacted with, allegedly bullied me.
plenty of children under 18 die of poverty, disease, crime. through no fault of their own. they did not get a chance to grow up, much be whatever they wanted to be.
someone could be jealous and not resort to physical violence.
someone could be physically violent and not jealous.
there is no method of measuring jealousy. not even MRI, EEG, PET scan.
even if they were jealous, they could've been jealous for any reason.
the counselor acted like an actor reciting lines verbatim. word for word. with enthusiasm. maybe that was in her job description.
when a professional interacts with me, it's like he or she hides behind an entire profession or company. when i am at work and interacting with a customer, it is like customer service.