The Stupidity of Shrinks

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What is the most ridiculous thing a shrink EVER said to you?


I think mine would be back in the mid 90s.

At my initial 'interview' to determine which counsellor to 'place' me with, my first question was something to do with my birth 'family'.

I was interuppted 10 minutes into my diatribe with the remarkably insightful observation of;

'That's amazing, you just spoke for 10 minutes without mentioning a single feeling'

Hellowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

He didn't manage to connect the dots

Imbecile.

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When I was a teenager and described my first hypnagogic hallucination. I knew it was a trick of my mind but because the image was a bunch of coat hangers tangled up and suspended in air he asked me what the coat hangers were going to "do" to me. Cringe worthy.

Okay, that is where my understanding of people completely stops.

Eight years ago, when my mom decided my godmother was right and I must have ADD (mothers...), I was taken to this eccentric shrink who had a sound waterbed that you had to lie on, etc.
So one time I was in a session with my parents, and the therapist asked me to describe my feelings in a certain situation, and after a while he went:

"Neves, this is not about you."

Oh...this thread's about stupid Shrinks...

I thought we were going to start a movement...

"Let's go with that". How would you shrink stupidity?

Decent public education?

When I read the thread title, I thought this be about getting rid of peoples stupidity

I can't remember, I do think most of them were trying to help me in some way and I have received help and support from some of them.

Probably the guy who insisted my first relapse wasn't a relapse. He wouldn't give in and I wouldn't either. He was a nice man, he just didn't 'get it'. He probably was just trying to get me to not 'count' the relapse because I took something over the counter and started my time over...so in his eyes it didn't 'count'. I had to quit seeing him. I think so many of them are clueless...they mean well 'most' of the time though.

When I first read the title, I thought of shrinky dinks and pictured it in my head and how stupid that exhibit was when we went to the discovery center last weekend.

I thought this thread was about shrink-wrapping.


Now, on topic......the silliest and stupidest thing a shrink (psychiatrist) has ever told me is that i was ritually abused by a satanic cult of which all my family were members, as were others in our family's church community and that this was the reason for my difficulties. That guy was THE WEIRDEST doctor/specialist I HAVE EVER BEEN TO.

he thought my rocking and my other ASD symptoms were due to some kind of "possession."

When I was fifteen I was diagnosed with OCD and put on a huge variety of medicine, from Adderall to Lexipro. Every time my boyfriend or his friends mention a drug, I seem to say, "I was on that once," and the other day my boyfriend was like, "Wow, you really were on everything!"

At this particular time I was seeing this Indian psychiatrist, and I didn't like her. She would quadruple-book her appointments thinking that three people would not show up, but everyone showed up. Every time. One day we got there for a three o'clock appointment and waited two hours and someone came out and told us all to go home because they were closing.

She had me on Zoloft. She told me antidepressants helped with OCD because they were similar imbalances. I believed her. I was really happy hoping my OCD symptoms would start to disappear. A few days later I tried to kill myself after suffering from a swift and awful depression. I wasn't depressed, so it was obvious that the symptoms came form the Zoloft. When we went in to see her again I had stopped taking the medicine and was back to normal.

She said she wanted to increase my dose and she was beginning to suspect I had bipolar disorder.

I got a new psychiatrist.

The stupidist....mmmm....probably that I did not fit this particular physician's stereotype of AS because I appeared intelligent to her.

The shrink I saw when I was 16-18 liked to blame things on my AS. My weird interests I had as a child, my fetish, me playing abuse games with my Barbie dolls when I was little, wishing I can take things from the store because I didn't want to pay that much money for it, the enjoyment of annoying people because they were being stupid, arguing, correcting people, being right about things.

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Thanks Willard for pointing out my gramatical blindspot with the (original) thread title.

I've now amended it to something perhaps a little less ambiguous.

It took me a few seconds to work out what you were saying

I totally thought the same thing!
I love how you say "I thought we were going to start a movement" 'cause it makes me imagine you with a really sad puppy face.

But yeah, I am ALL for! I say start by ignoring stupid people? And not just not looking at people passing by, but literally walk out of conversations. (Sounds bold, let's do it)

"Some people with aspergers will go to any length to fulfill their obsession, even if it means harming others in their paths. I like to call these individuals 'autistic psychopaths'".

Spoken by a published author and lecturer on AS to a roomful of junior doctors. Well done. One hour to tell us everything about the condition and you spend about 10 minutes on this gem.