What is it like to have "treatment"?

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Actually thats exactly what it is! I meant to "speech" which was "Social Therapy" from K-6 Grade and it has helped immensely!

Unfortunatly thats not how the world works. Lying skills ARE important, but dont take that too literal, you need to be able to lie and little bit or people are going to exile you as a complete ass hole. The truth hurts sometimes. Example

Being brutaly honest:

Person A: "Do these pants make my but look too big?!"
Person B: "Yes your ass is tromendous I reccommend you burn those pants and get liposuction for your rear-end"

That would get you slapped.

Try this again:

Person A: "Do these pans make my butt look to big?!"
Person B: "No but I think you should wear those pants as I think they bring out your personality as a person better"

A lot of psychologists have done that to me, too. They think all my problems are rooted in my childhood somehow, like they're still stuck on Freud or something. But I've worked through that stuff. I'm OK with it now. I survived; I'm stronger; and I don't even have nightmares anymore. And they don't get that; they think that anybody who ever got beat up or insulted has to have lifelong issues.

They get hung up on my childhood instead of helping me learn practical things, for now, instead of re-hashing the past.

I can see how you might need to talk about it if you've still got things stuck in your mind from back then, that you learned then and are still habitual. Like, maybe your jerkass parent(s) told you you were useless, and now you believe it. But... even if you completely deal with your growing-up trauma, there can still be problems that need to be addressed; and that's where I am now. I need to figure out how I fit into the world, and how I can use what I know and what I'm good at to do something that's worthwhile.

So far I've only had one counselor who didn't blame childhood issues... and, surprise surprise, she's not trained as a psychologist, but as a social worker.

Wowww....Why would you get slapped if you just answered the question? It's like they only want to listen to what they want to hear.