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

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How un-professional of him!

After 50 minute session, Psychotherapist: "You have Borderline Personality Disorder!"

Me: "I don't think that is correct, that really doesn't sit right with me."

Psychotherapist: "Well disagreeing with and challenging Doctors is a common symptom of BPD, so you are just proving me right!"

I walked out, he did his report for my employers and I was pensioned off.

Short while later went privately to a different Psychotherapist, 6 hours of sessions, hundreds of questions, "You don't have BPD, you are on the Autistic Spectrum, Asperger's is the correct diagnosis."

He lost his accreditation with the British Psychotherapy Council, I was not the only woman he had propositioned over the years! The worse thing was I thought it was going really well, and the last thing I needed was more trust issues.

Wow ...indeed. sounds like grounds for a malpractice lawsuit.

I thought I had had some bad therapists. But nothing that outrageous.
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Decades after the fact my parents would tell me about their own meetings with my therapists they sent me to when I was in gradeschool, and about how the shrinks would intimidate them (Im the expert -how dare you question me!" sorta thing).


I loved to draw as a tot. And would use up reams of paper making crude crayon comic strip type stories about imaginary characters, and their adventures. My parents would describe this obsession, and would tell the shrinks that "he calls each chapter of these stories 'episodes'." I do remember using that term about those stories I would draw.

But the shrinks would get pissed off at the mention of the word "episode", and would accuse my parents of coloring the truth.

"NO child would use a word like 'episode'!" they would declare.

Never ceases to amuse me that they thought it was OUT of character for an eight year old child (who watched TV in the early Sixties) to use the word "episode".

The word "episode" is used as jargon by shrinks themselves to describe human interaction. Apparently these shrinks would jump to the conclusion that my parents were apeing shrinkspeak-and then falsely attributing it to their kid (me).

Apparently these shrinks never took their heads out of their asses long enough to watch TV. Especially children's TV.

They never noticed that every cartoon show, and every live action adventure show, on TV at that time (Johnny Quest, Sky King, Bonanza, Get Smart!) that eight year old boys watched ended with the announcer saying "tune in next week for the next EPISODE of the XYZ show!". So ofcourse I would call each installment of my own adventure stories "episodes"(apeing TV, not to ape learned shrink jargon).

What a bunch no common sense dumb clucks!