Posted by headachequeen on December 5, 2004, at 21:25:36
In reply to No psychs for me thanks!, posted by bridgey1128 on December 5, 2004, at 20:24:07
> Someone asked about talk therapy. Talk therapy as in psychologist, no I have never felt the need. I find them unhelpful and patronizing.
Well, I have to disagree to some extent. If I were to base an opinion on the first psychotherapist (as in psychologist) I met well, I might agree as I found him utterly pathetic and really felt that he was easily manipulated and totally unhelpful. He was convinced that everyone had to fit into a category somewhere, even if that category was unhelpful and inappropriate.
Then I met the second psychiatologist was totally different and unbelievably helpful. He also had little if any use for the first psychologist and his categories and slots and ideas, I might add. His help was sound and he did not insist that I look him in the eye; he realised that there were things we were talking about that made me want to look anywhere but at people, let alone in someone's eyes, and he accepted that.
He was there with a box of tissues when it was needed and with silence when it was needed.
The third and fourth such people I know are also sound practioners of their craft...
If I were to base my opinion of psychiatrists on the first such I met, then I would say that all such are wonderful people with a solid ability to help their patients connect with themselves and their needs and on and on...
but then I met the second one, and he was the head of service and I formed a distinctly negative impression...
and I now think that they are for the most part, note I say, for the MOST part, overpaid and over-rated and I wonder why they are allowed such free rein in treatment...
kat
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