Does your psychologist help you?

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Heh, so reading this thread, I got to thinking.. and then making some T-shirts!
(It's not spamming to post a link, is it? I made T-shirts on spreadshirt that say "My therapist is not ready to talk about this!")

My Spreadshirt Interpretation of This Thread

BWAH HA HA HA.

Let me put it this way: LabPet says it best in her signature where she mentions "therapist slayer."

So, how did that make you feel?





Sorry, I couldn't resist.

My current psychologist is cool ,but he specializes in aspergers and severe depression, it's why I was referred to him. We share some interests (singing and psychology *duh*), he talks to me in a rational manner and isn't afraid to say when he thinks I'm wrong, so actual discussion on topics can be held and learned from, we talk about my life as well, and he has a friend with aspergers so he can probably relate better with me.

Oh lol there's a whole other thread on this.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/posts102647-start15.html
Some NTs also have issues with this approach too.

All these Psychologists must be either attending the same school or reading from the same textbook.

Singing from the same "hymn sheet".

Perhaps with time constraints and all...


Also, will a Psychologist offer to help to repair the Psychological damage that another Psychologist or the Psychiatric system itself has caused the patient?

Just curious...

^ I actually tried to get one psychologist to help me deal with the damage a previous one had caused. They didn't want to help and were afraid to say anything bad about a fellow professional.

Yea.. I've had that problem too!

I knew more about aspergers than my psychologist. She kept contradicting herself (bad idea cos I get confused), was indian and didn't listen, meaning I had to repeat myself over and over and being someone who doesn't always like to talk that was HELL. She then told me I had to control my panics/meltdowns myself, even though my mum was trying to get me to see someone to get help with controlling them because I can't and was telling me it was up to me to do it myself when I kept saying I didn't know how, and asking her for advice which she kept saying she had already given me. Which she hadn't. I am not very emotional and I nearly cried and walked out. She then started having a go at my mum, saying it was her fault and she was doing too much for me and I need to do things myself, like answer the phone, which I am TERRIFIED of doing and need help from someone like her to improve! She made my mum cry and got to leave early. Over £200 for an hour, kicked me out after 25mins for 'going round in circles' then told my mum to BACK OFF. Then was leaving at the same time as us - she just wanted to go home B*TCH
Got a new place now, hopefully they will be better, not going back there again!

i see an ASD specialist. So if you are reading this...hello Monsieur Stephen U.

I have seen many therapists over the course of my life that were a complete and total waste of time.
they would try to get me to interact more with the world, try to get to the "bottom of my problems" etc and try to sort through and sift through my history. It really was like panning for fool's gold.

I get practical help now. I want to know how i can live to my optimum with my autism. that is the kind of help i am getting today.
it is beneficial. heading towards 50 in a few years...better late than never.

thanks monsieur stephen.

I got referred to a clinical psychologist but the referral got messed up and I never saw one.

I saw an educational psychologist when i was 12. This did more harm than good, as they wouldn't explain why I was there or what was going on and I took it to be a sort of punishment for being mad.

I saw a psychiatrist who was useless, and got completely the wrong idea about everything. Again, did more harm than good.

I saw a private psychotherapist who has helped me a lot.

The SENCO at my school was an educational psychologist, and she helped me, although that was helping me by being a SENCO rather than a psychologist, I suppose.

"How does it make you feel?"

What about stoicism and a "stiff upper lip"?


I can see how this approach could confuse some people or not be in line with their approaches to life.


This "express your feelings" ethos would seem strange to someone who's used to just getting on with things or comes from a reserved culture (where emotional expression is more controlled, or some of it may be considered taboo) or has grown up in a time that valued self reliance and "getting on with things" over and above "going to cry to Mommy".

Certainly many people I've known would find this approach damaging and non-sensical.

Again, people have told me many times that they have different approaches to life, dealing with grief etc. Some people prefer to politely hold it in, others to let it out. Neither approach is "right" or "wrong", just different.