Posted by MrSandman on April 14, 2004, at 19:42:54
Poll: What is the single most absurd observation or advice you have heard from your psychotherapist?
I'll get the ball rolling. At one of the world's most prestigious (and pretentious) private psychiatric hospitals I was told, " your chronic severe depression is rooted in your failure to mourn the death of your brother."
That brother was stillborn when I was 18 months old.
Like a Zen koan, that pearl of unwisdom was so preposterous as to be enlightening. In a flash I lost faith in my mental health care "providers" and gained confidence in my own common sense. I had heard the sound of one hand clapping.
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