Ditched my therapist today?

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So,

A few reasons.

1. He canceled appt a few times.
2. He never did a full 50 min session. Sessions lasted at most 45 mins.
3. In my eyes he didn't really seem competent. I felt he had to really prepare before a session with me. I believe he might had canceled appts because he didn't want to deal with me that day.
4. They screwed up billing my insurance the first time I went. I had to call to get them to straighten it out, and we all know that if you don't straighten it out with them it because your resp....
5. He talked about transferring me during the 2nd session, but never went back to it.

Looking for someone else. I don't have a strong confidence in these therapist or in psychiatry in general........

I remember the conversation with the secretary

Me: I want to cancel my appt tommorw and all future appt with Dr. X.
Sec: OK, can you hold on a second?
Me: WHY?
Sec: Pause, Pause, Pause, OK, I understand you don't want to see Dr. X anymore, I will cancel this appt and all future.
Me: Thanks, Bye.

i ditched mine too. he pretty much told me that i was just a job to him. i never want to see another one.

What was funny was she wanted to put me on hold so she could put Dr. X on the phone and maybe "work things out"..... I could tell what she was doing.

I ditched mine and now I'm happy.

I thought you wrote in another thread that therapy really helped you?

I just started seeing one so it's too early to tell how it'll work out.

I've had both helpful and unhelpful therapists. sometimes they were both the same person.

I went to see a counselor for a few weeks, but stopped because she wasn't helping me with my problem; I paid her $40 a session to have regular conversations that I could have had with anyone for free, which had nothing to do with the reason I hired her. She was also big on astrology, past lives and alternate planes of reality, all of which I found to be nonsense. I never said as much to her, though I should have; she wanted to hypnotise me to see if I could experience anything from my past life. It was not long after that that I stopped seeing her, and not just because I could no longer afford it effectively.

I quit seeing mine in high school.

Find them difficult.

have known the pyschologist of mine for many years; he is part of the social services intelectual disability team,he admits he is on the autism spectrum himself but he doesnt have to as its bloody obvious.

we get on extremely well because he understands and never patronises, he sees disability without the negativity,in his younger days he changed the way some oldskool intelectual disability institutions worked,he is the perfect pyschologist and its a pity there arent more of him.
we go for coffees sometimes and he does home visits to check with staff how have been doing.

Why would you need a counsellor when your problems are caused by a neurological condition?

What kind of things get discussed, and what do they do to help?

They explain how things work in the world. And they give suggestions for how to survive.

I see. ty.

In a world full of the insane those who are sane would actually be labelled as the ones who are disordered.

Therapists buy into the present insanity we refer to as civilisation and as a result further compound the madness out there...

The world is not in good shape, the belief systems it clings on to are little more than mass delusions that the masses have been brainwashed with, the ideologies it sells do not promote health. Usually they are more likely to promote someone's bank balance more than anything else...

In other words, they try to turn you into a clone of your same sex peers. I'll keep cutting my hair and dressing like a Mod, thank you.