Worst thing a Psychiatrist/Therapist etc. has told you.

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I have to say this is potentially a VERY productive thread. The nature of our problems makes it harder for some of us to notice when we're getting bad advice and harder than average for us to self-advocate even when we do see it. I, personally, welcome hearing concrete examples and getting a chance to practice what I might say when that grim day comes.

It was in the Eighties when a therapist said something to me that really tested my resolve not to scream in her face. She said I should get a thicker skin. "HOW?" I said. "I have been hearing that one since kindergarten. You tell me how and I'll do it." That shut her up.

Another time, I was talking about the primary issue that brought me into her office, my absolute terror of entering the adult world because I had no idea how it worked and I knew I was going to be clueless about how to manage. "It's nice to be young and irresponsible," she said dismissively. Oh, I could have decked her.

I went to see my doctor back in the nineties and mentioned that I thought I probably had ADD (as it was called then) and that it affected perhaps 15-20% of the population........

Her reply..............'Oh, that's normal then'



I suppose it is, like cancer and influenza and........................

Well, i've only ever been to one. he was annoying though, just didnt really seem good. and when i went in there, i was terrified, and went in crying, and he just got this shocked, annoyed look, and was like "WHY are you crying?!" in an annoyed voice. he didnt really seem to say much, or anything. i told him i was sure i had social anxiety, and after the session he just told me that, and other things i already knew.

"It's all your fault."

Surely not the worst, but one of the worst.

WritersBlock, I don't understand why you're putting so much into a thread that you call pointless, unless it's purposely to bother gina-ghettoprincess. She had a good point; if a thread is pointless, you ignore it.

If you're after her because you're holding a grudge about something that she may have said before, that's you that's "jumping all over someone" and has a "bug up your butt." (Using your terms here.)

WritersBlock, I have looked through everything I have posted since you joined WP, and none of it has been directed at you. Whatever you are referring to must have happened in a thread that was deleted by a moderator. If you're not going to tell me what I've done to offend you, then there's not much I can do.

*Gina moves on with life...*

In 2004 I was seeing a therapist after experiencing a traumatic event. I was having symptoms of PTSD and was drinking every night to cope. She told me I was totally fine and not to worry about it

This thread is a cess pit of fools and foolishness, with a few exceptions.

My childhood psychiatrist was just a piece of work all around.

She knew that (one of) the drugs that she was giving me were causing me mini-seizures involving olfactory hallucinations, dizziness, frequent feelings of deja vu and exhaustion. Not only did she NOT tell my parents to get me an MRI or a CAT scan or anything that might have detected a congenital brain tumor that the medication was causing to grow, but she kept me on the medication until I had a full-on grand mal seizure and passed out. Even then, she took me off the medication without doing any follow-up to make sure that things were okay.

She kept my dad, who was rather squeamish about some of the ways she was dealing with me, from saying anything for a while by supplying him with recreational drugs on the side, and then when he finally started to fight back, she threatened to institutionalize him and strip him of custody of my brother and I.

She looked through my sketchbook drawings, which were mostly satirical/dark humor cartoons, and started flipping out and telling my dad that I was going to become a school shooter because they involved killer robots, weapons and blood. She pretty much shoved medication in my face and screamed at me for refusing to take any more drugs.

She listened to my dad and I's reasons that I shouldn't be put through any more unnecessary cosmetic surgery that my mom and the head of the team of doctors I saw wanted me to go through, and seemed to take our side. Then she fantastically backstabbed me and switched sides when we actually talked to my mom about it, telling me that I should be happy for this "opportunity" and dismissed all of our completely legitimate reasons for why it was a bad idea.

She in general got involved with my family's politics, triangulating between my mom and dad and driving them farther apart, especially on issues concerning my wellbeing.

She not only told everything I said to my parents, even though she knew it got used against me often enough, but also exchanged other patients' secrets between them.

All in all, in the six years I was going to see her, I was on twelve or more different medications, and every single one gave me side effects. Because she worked almost exclusively with medication treatments, she overlooked qualities that obviously pointed to a spectrum condition (poor coordination and motor control, social skill problems, perseverations, problems with proper body language and sensory issues). Instead, I got diagnosed with ADHD, dissociating from reality, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, clinical depression, bipolar disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Only the latter was in any way accurate. I ended up flushing and trashing my medications for several months before I was found out, at which point my parents could obviously not prove that there was any difference on or off, and soon after managed to finally see another doctor.