What is the worst thing a mental health worker can do?

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no the nts get things wrong because they are caught up in foo foo land....'hey I added meaning thats not there and only exists in my head vill'....

there is no such thing as a literal misunderstanding...literal is literal! and that is that

That is true.

ETA: Sorry about the quotes, can't get it to work right!

Can relate to the above posts …. But the topic kinda makes me sad, because of the reality of it .

While I have had some good results with SSRIs and found the withdrawl tolerable [low dose effexor took a long time to get rid of the zaps but zoloft was easy], I suspect they may be neurotoxic.

Look at how much effort is spent on 'studying*' [sic] and shouting from the rooftops how MDMA and Methamphetamine damage your brain compared to how much effort is spent on the potential harms of SSRIs.

*a lot of the studies involve giving monkeys or rats HUGE IV doses of Meth and then neglecting to mention this when the media does its scaremongering. Abusing animals is the science.

Last edited by The_Znof on 15 Jun 2022, 2:04 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Never deal with a limited company without awareness that it is deliberately built with the morality of a psychopath, and the talents of many specialists to make it slick. To a drug company, the worst product is one that quickly cures a problem without causing any side effects. The ideal product would be one that causes strong addiction, and leads to a cascade of further prescriptions to mask the side effects, leaving the patient as a very long-lived vegetable. If they can't find a nasty solution, they use the relatively useful drugs to give the impression that they are all benign. Doctors and nurses live awash in their propaganda, and alternatives are forced out of practice.

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Due to HIPAA, the counselor could get away with (almost) anything. The counselor is the one that maintains records. It is illegal for the client to take a tape recorder, so the client has zero physical evidence.

Some counselors acted like the answer to "how are you doing?" is "perfect" and all other answers are wrong, and the punishment for a wrong answer is 5150.

Plenty of times, counselors failed to hear what I said. Instead of grunting "huh" and "what" like they are the etiquette equivalent of "excuse me" (like most precious lil "people"), they just assumed that i said whatever they wanted me to say.

As a result, I was constantly paranoid that they would misunderstand or mishear something I said (even if I phrased it perfectly) and then call 5150, and it would not matter that I did not say what they claimed I said, because I have zero proof, and, of course, i am certain plenty of clients denied having said something. The cops are going to believe the counselor, not me.

Counselors could get away with doing anything they want, legal or illegal. Unless the client wins a civil lawsuit. Some lawsuits take two years. Some lawyers charge 600 bucks an hour. Outcome not guaranteed, even if you have the moral high road

That's basically what happened to me.

Related - I just read that many bullies tend to go into nursing. That would explain why I just get the run-around at my local hospital. I caught the head nurse in a mistake, and pointed it out. So, she sent me to another clinic with less time to get there than an ambulance needed, and got me on record as being late.
The same article noted the large numbers of people studying psychology to figure themselves out, not willing to try counselling for themselves. The ones who do grow have some talent, but it may only help very similar cases.

My experiences with nurses were positive for the most part. If anything, it's the pediatricians I despise. Not regular doctors who happen to treat a child patient, or the nurses assisting them, but actual pediatricians. Those are garbage! The ones I saw as a kid had rotten bedside manners: they always made a big fuss over how scared I looked, which got me in trouble at home later.

I fought back by withholding as many symptoms as I could. Otherwise, I fought tooth-and-nail on seeing male doctors. I felt more at ease with them: they were less likely to out my emotions to my parents, and thus were less likely to get me in trouble at home. They also knew how to talk to a boy without making him feel cowardly, suicidal, or both. Also, I was getting older, and became gun-shy about women examining me, even for non-gendered body parts. I don't really care today, as I know doctors have seen it all. But if I see a urologist, I'd want a male doctor no matter what! After all, no cis-gendered woman will ever understand what it's like to carry a set of dangling balls and a shaft!

If anything, I'd say bullies go into family therapy or pediatric medicine. It gives them the carte blanche to inflict pain on a kid, get him in trouble with his parents, watch him cry, then smugly pat themselves on the back for "doing it for his own good". Much like they themselves mocked troubled kids as children. Not to mention, most pediatricians and family therapists are women, and the Blue Pilled "women can do no wrong" mantra further gives them the proverbial angel halo, while enabling the devil spirit in them.

I'm just going to say as far as my experiences with far too many psychologists and psychiatrists, I've never had any problems outside of what I previously mentioned: the right questions sometimes weren't asked. I wasn't much a fan of psychologists as they tended to talk about those icky things, emotions and feelings, but they were useful to talk to about specific things that bothered me all the same, as things always come with emotions and feelings, so they're receptive to that.

I like psychiatrists when it comes to mental health stuff.

Do they do ABA in your RC?

Don’t assume patient is not suffering, just wants to get a SS check.

When working with a child keep in mind what you do can affect them for years (the rest of their life), try to make it positive not negative.

Hold yourself accountable to a higher power, because in reality you are accountable.

No. We basically function as a place to separate from the stress of life. We do have some actual counsellors but a lot of us are just there as someone to chat too. We also direct people to other mental health services but, as an autistic person, I would never recommend ABA to anyone I work with.

Sorry for not making this clear! I spent ages thinking the title through and still messed it up :')

Gotta disagree there. It's not just the placebo, especially as so many trials are randomised. The issue with this sort of medication is that we don't fully understand it but it does save lives and have an actual effect. They're getting better at that now and can do genetic tests to see which suits you better.

I feel quite strongly on the subject because I have people I love who would be locked up in a psych ward or dead without mental health medication. Sometimes you can't do anything but take medication to help. I've been mentally ill for years and it wasn't until I took medication that I even had the motivation to take better care of myself. It's not perfect and I still get depressed, but at least I don't constantly dream about ending my life and don't self harm every other day.

I don’t believe you “messed it up.”

I believe it encourages people to speak of their bad experiences with therapists.