>that moment you realize you're deeper than your therapist

>>35699341
it's a horrible feeling
knowing you're smarter than someone who is supposed to help you

>>35699459
It's not even necessarily "smarter" even though that's also true, but that's not what bothers me--I just know for a fact he hasn't felt anything remotely close to what I feel so he just dully synthesizes or throws cliche-able folk-psychology at me. I've been seeing this guy for 6 months (due to probation obligation) and I haven't learned a fucking thing. It feels horrible.

>>35699341
I'm doing psychology and most of the students are basic stacies

>>35699341
I went to a psych once, and only once.

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>you fall in love with your therapist

my therapist was kinda dumb and I manipulated the shit out of her and gave her a totally different version of what my life is like. my parents forced me to go. she would always say I'm smart and "scientifically minded" or some shit. and she would always try and get me to practice spirituality and was shocked I didn't believe in the afterlife. I honestly don't know if I would do well with any therapist unless they had gone through depression themselves and were intelligent. I have a tendency to think I'm better than and to outsmart authority though.

she gave seriously retarded reasons for my problems like that my friends left me because they were jealous of my looks like what the fuck?? lmao couldn't be further from the truth

>>35699341
Holly get off the internet, you roastie

>>35699579
TELL HIM YOU UTTER FAGGOTTTTTTTTTT

>>35699579
Stop going, is a meme, it has never helped anyone who couldn't had sorted themselves out by themselves
>>35700868
Dear God, this was really similar to my experience, but I'm not as edgy as you and my therapist wasn't THAT retarded, just a vapid liberal cunt
I'm sure I was making depressed

I think is just women therapist that are retarded, maybe there are some non totally retarded male ones, but still, how could anyone who has managed to get through university and hold a job relate to a NEET

>>35701022
>making her* depressed
FTFM

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I went to therapy today and the guy was pretty youngish who played PC games and built PCs and new about 4chan and didn't even bat an eye when I told him I had a waifu.

I've had my fair share of psychologicak problems. Every therapist I've had never fully understood me. I always feel like no one can truly understand how I feel. I'm diagnosed with some type of autism (yes I'm not joking) and it's drastically affected my life. It doesn't affect how smart I am, it only affects my social skills mostly. Thankfully I'm not full tard. Apparently it's some kind of "high functioning autism" thing that only affects me slightly. Anyways, so since I have this autism I have never been able to really be social. I want to be more social, but whenever I try I always stutter and I talk really quietly. Life sucks man. Any suggestions?

>>35700713
trust me when i say this: iktfb

>>35701122
This is gay as fugg. I bet you jerk off to trap porn.

>>35699341
>>35699579
Just get it over with and play it all out... What else can you do?

>>35701132
Yeah, because no one can fully understand what its like to be an August unless they were one themselves. We can only speculate the mind of the autist

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>>35699579
this anon
> went to therapy at 12 because of suicide note
>dad puts me in a small hospital room for 6 hours
>sees therapist for 3 months doesn't do shit the usual therapist protocol
>after a 2 months tell mom and dad I'm fine
>goes home and cries because ill never get or want the help ill need

>>35701323
That's the plan. I'm dealing with it, despite it being an obvious waste of time and money--and if anything it's a resource for me to vent as I talk to no one irl. But it just devolves into a severe level of irony once I pass his threshold of understanding, and we just begin laughing at the bleakness of my outlook. Today I spent the hour justifying why I should kill myself and he said "please don't do that because it would hurt my reputation" but laughing with a disturbing level of irony. I almost broke down but held myself together and began talking about my hatred things besides myself.

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>therapist asks if I've had any thoughts of suicide
>lie and say I haven't

who else /devilish/

>>35701753
Why pay to talk to someone confidentially if you're just going to lie?

I mean, I have stuff that's hard to admit so I avoid it, but if I ever end up lying to my therapist I just think it becomes a habit that ruins the point of seeing her

>>35701753
Nah, the only devilish option in dealing with a therapist is telling him all of your deepest, most fucked up thoughts, and then asking him how he would cope with that.

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whats the point of even having a therapist they don't do shit and most of them don't any ties to the subject your facing and give the same generic answer

>>35701836
Found tha pedo

>>35701889
OH SNAP!
WHAPISHHHH!!!!

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>>35701869
>mfw I've done exactly this

>>35700868
>haha me so smart there's no afterlife xD
Quantum physics seems to disagree with you.

You're not intelligent, you're just an average edgy 17 year old.

>>35701980
what did he say anon

>>35701653
Can I hear what justifies your suicide?

Also, therapists have always been jokes, what do you expect?

>>35702023
*tips /pol/ infographs*

>>35702023
>christcuck comes to preach on /r9k/
Disgusting desu

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I'm a professional psychochgist breaker. The trick to that is turning the tables and through manipulation gaining far more information about them than they do you and then slowly making them realize what you've done without them even knowing.

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Do they ever give anything besides generic normie advice

>exercise
>eat healthy food
>get enough sleep
>stop dwelling on negative thoughts
>stick to a schedule
>make a plan and stick with it
>have organization and structure in your life
>mindfulness meditation

That's literally all I ever got from them.

>>35702060
This.
>Turn the session around discretely and therapize them
My man

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>>35702035
He said that he didn't think it was a good idea for me to see him anymore as I was beyond a level of "care" he could give.

>>35702081
And have you done any of that?
There IS a reason for the rehashing of this advice.

>>35702047
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_RwcGzGurc
Watch this video, or are you too ADD to watch something that's longer than 2 minutes?
>>35702048
Nowhere in my post did I mention Christianity.
Are you seriously so close minded that any mention of an afterlife makes you think of Christianity?

>>35702149
Yes I have done all of that and I've tried their shitty meme pills too.

>go see phat liberal weirdo family therapist at 14 after suicide attempt
>she diagnoses me with cPTSD from family problems
>gives cheesy heartfelt speech about the diagnosis
>that sounds like some dramatic bullshit - only soldiers get PTSD and it's not like my childhood was that bad
>fast forward to 22
>self-reflective period after severe episode of depression
>realize that a lot of my problems seem to be those commonly experienced by people who grew up in really fucked up households
>sit and wonder how it could be true for me
>suddenly all sorts of repressed memories about being molested and watching my dad beat my brother and my mother saying terrible things to me come rushing back almost instantly
>absolutely stunned
>bitch was right
>go home and eat dinner with family and finally understand why i hate them and myself so much

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>>35702081
But this is genuinely good advice goyim!

>>35702200
I have suspected something like this but I don't know for sure. How do you get repressed memories to come back? I feel like there is something they are hiding from me.

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>tfw your therapist is too cute and innocent looking to fill her with your rotten thoughts so you just start talking about unimportant shit and hope she doesn't realize you are fucked up

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>>35702238
For me the answer is: you don't. Which ines you do you can't really trust because it's so full of holes that the imagination works to fil them. Which makes them more fiction than anything else.

>>35702039
What justifies my suicide?

No parents or family that have any feelings towards my existence, genuinely feel no emotion (I've been manically depressed for 7+ years and there will never be rest regardless of my meds), I have had a relationship with the ideal girl who loved me yet I felt very little towards her and stayed with her for purely sexual reasons (it has now become a purified regret), I have no friends nor do I have interest in making them, all of my artistic aspirations are deception as I have no real talent, I have no career and I have no interest in education (which I've tried to withstand since I was 21 but I honestly believe it's a huge waste of fucking time and its end goal is to indoctrinate innocent rich fags to self-perpetuating entitlement), all I genuinely care about is poetry (even though I'm innately mathematically-minded, so fuck this irony), and I'm an alcoholic with no interest in stopping. I just wage-cuck while staring into an oblivion of despair-fueled emptiness!! "xD"

I'm a god damn treasure chest of psychological issues.

I was designed to be this way. Thanks, assholes.

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>>35702356
You sound pretty intelligent anon, it's a shame you had to go so far down the rabbit hole with it. We're all in one mass grave already, stay and rot with us for awhile more.

>>35702356
Add pedophilia to this and I know your feel 'cept for poetry. I just enjoy writing stories.

>>35702081
they also often say that youve made a lo of 'progress'

>>35702238

as far as i've been able to discern, for myself at least, it was because my parents trivialized/gaslighted/ignored every negative feeling i'd ever bring to their attention. so if they did something wretched my automatic response was that it "wasn't a big deal" and that i was "being dramatic" or "being sensitive"

like my dad molested me once because he was "fixing the tag in my underwear". it took me remembering that and realizing how strange it was that "fixing the tag in my underwear" took 5 minutes and involved so much rubbing of my ass

and masturbating in front of my mom was probably not conducive to my young sexual education

and "family baths" that involved me and my brother playing with each other sexually were probably not appropriate

and it wasn't really all that "fun" or "funny" when my mom would take close-up pictures of me and my brother's penis

also, most of this happened when i was really young. i think a lot of this stopped by the time i turned 9/10, but i can't be so sure because there are massive black areas of my childhood, and my memory of all of this is episodic

and as far as the beatings go, i think the reason why i forgot was because

1) nobody would stop it if it happened in front of people outside our family (which wasn't all that often) so i came to the conclusion that it as normal

2) i grew up in indiana, where capital punishment is still treated with ambivalence. a lot of kids got spanked. i wasn't able to understand, at my young age, the difference between spanking and my brother being beaten until his ears were bleeding, so people didn't really bat an eye at me saying anything about the beatings

i lived a pretty isolated and highly controlled childhood too. a lot of people will say that kids repress memories because they're too painful, and maybe that's true, but at least to me it was because they became so normal that they no longer seemed worth remembering

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>>35702200
Anon I love you and I'm sorry. I know these feels very well and I want you to know that you can talk about it here, because we understand you.

>>35702238
Repressed memories can be brought back by recreation of the event (if you were raped in a dark alley way at night where there was a flickering green light nearby, you might not remember until you are again walking home one night through a dark alley way and a flickering light comes into view, causing/forcing your brain to remember the traumatic event) or through deep and long meditation on events and your life. That's all I know on bringing back suppressed memories, I'm not going to get into the neurology of it.

>>35702238

oh, and as far as recovering your memories go? it takes a lot of introspection, time, and a little bit of luck. you're going to have to figure out what your triggers are, those strange things that make you uncomfortable that don't make (most) other people uncomfortable, and then analyze.

for example, i remembered the pictures because i realized that having my picture taken has always made me feel overexposed/uncomfortable. not in a total meltdown kind of way, just a strange vague feeling of being uncomfortable. and then i just remembered

>>35702356
>feel no emotion
>depressed
uuhhhhhhhhhhhhh wyd

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>>35702110
kek therapist are just normies who cant give real advice and their too ignorant to realize you have to go through the subject to really help a person

>>35702446
It wasn't supposed to be like this. I just wanted to be loved.

>>35702478
Fuck, earlier today I was thinking about how easily I might slip into pedophelia......fuck the implications of them ellipses! I'm already attracted to cute teenagers, and I'm terrified that as I get older the interest will turn into a degenerate fetish

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>>35702504
You never even had a chance anon.

Therapists can literally only help with normie problems, "oh im not getting laid every week by my gf" or "oh i havent been out clubbing for 2 weeks im so depressed and a loner xdd"

The therapists being normies themselves would have no fucking idea what people like us have gone through and have no way to give advice for it other than "just bee yourself"

>>35702718
Once you hit it, there's no going back. Don't fall in. We're just rotting and waiting to kill ourselves.

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>>35702646
Fucking laughing at your life

>thinking depression has to be emotional

Pure depression is a split between numbness and the extreme of despair. &&You're a meme if you think otherwise! :^)

>>35702718
>I might slip into pedophelia

I've been thinking that too, I went over to /tv/ for the first time about a week ago, and in the dafne keen threads just to talk about her acting but then saw everyone sexualising her, and then saw how many cunny threads that are on that board, fuck you /tv/

>>35699341
I wanna deep in my therapist if you know what I mean

>>35702166
Well, christians are the most common nonreligious group on 4chan, and you are insecure enough to the point where you couldn't let op off-handedly mentioning he doesn't believe in an afterlife slide without constructing a strawman of him to take down for the purpose of validating yourself, and now you're preemptively insulting that other anon because he's almost certainly not going spend two hours watching a lecture to debate something unrelated the thread with, it seemed to fit pretty well.

Regardless of what religion you describe yourself as having, the contents of that lecture, or even the objective existence of an afterlife, one things for certain, you're a huge faggot need to kys asap.

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>>35702317
Awww you're cute anon. But in all honestly your duty is to their shit up. That's how they get gud

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>>35702718
>it wasn't supposed to be like this
It wasn't supposed to be anything anon. There is no governance to ones end nor orchestration of ones beginning.

And for what's it's worth I love your spirit anon. As we love all things that are echos of ourselves in deepest sorrow.

>>35702356
post some of your poetry?

>>35702567
thank you, it means a lot to know that, even on 4chan, there are people out there that care

>>35702356
Why the disinterest in education? What do rich kiddies have to feel entitled about?

Do you think your depression could be of biological defect + the nurture factor of growing up loveless and disregarded? You know that medication cannot always work either, right? Thats when they go in ECT or DBS (you've a 99% chance that you've heard of this), though, the chances are virtually impossible.

The girl part seems kinda pointless to be sad about, I think we are all a Don Juan here (nothing wrong with it, unless you do aim for intimacy, then thats a problem)

What interests you about poetry? I don't buy into the mind being fixed one way, if you are mathematically minded (left brain dominant) you can still change and adapt if you tried hard enough.

What's your work?

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>>35699341
>when you make your therapist cry by being so pathetic
heh

>>35702955
If this thread lives until I get home I'll post some of my poetry, I promise. I'm at the bar, as always, throwing my life further towards a meaningless and regret-filled oblivion. Also, no need to feel gratitude, that should be the use of this board. Would befriend you online tbqhwyrn :^)

>>35702833
> and you are insecure enough to the point where you couldn't let op off-handedly mentioning he doesn't believe in an afterlife slide
Because faggots like him think not believing in an afterlife makes them enlightened even though they are just parroting other retards.

>and now you're preemptively insulting that other anon because he's almost certainly not going spend two hours watching a lecture to debate something unrelated the thread with, it seemed to fit pretty well.

Oh no I wondered if he's too ADD to watch a 102 minute long video after he replied with a meme post, woe is me.

>you're a huge faggot need to kys asap.

no u

>>35702727

believe it or not, i'm pretty high-functioning. the sexual abuse wasn't really that bad, probably because it wasn't violent. it just warped my sexuality into easily-accommodated and easily-contained weirdness - so it really only destroyed my ability to enjoy normal sex for normal people, at least for now

i'm recovering from the persistent depression and now know how to prevent lapsing back into severe depression, with a little bit of discipline i feel that the worst is probably over. but i could be wrong, we'll see

if there's anything i still believe in it's miracles, which are the moments that reveal and change everything. so i'm hopeful about the future

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>go see a therapist
>she's quite young, seems a little inexperienced
>first session she tells me about group therapy
>join because I don't know any better
>instead of having 1 on 1 conversations I'm listening to a bunch of autists talk about their retarded problems
>I've been doing this for a year now because this is my only form of human contact
>want to quit but the therapist is too nice and I feel like I would upset her
>mfw I've spent hundreds of dollars on this

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>>35703122
Dubs means you're gonna make it anon

>>35703291
Kek.
Too pussy to say no.
Too beta to leave.

>>35703305

i hope so, and i hope we all do too

>>35703291
autist herding

seems like a solid line of work desu

secret secret

I got a secret.

I'll get off this board the second you fucks give me answers. Solid answers.

>>35704788
Bet. Ask away.

>tfw dumbfuck milf therapist assumed I used to go out partying in highschool
>feels good to be chad

>severely anxious and depressed
>drop acid every couple months
>understand my thought loops
>learn to discipline the mind
>perform self psychoanalysis
>give new meanings to my past and traumatising events in my childhood (beatings, controlling parents, fear)

The trick is to bring back the positive and act on it I cant say its been easy. Fuck therapists by the way how can he understand what one goes through?

>>35703122
The dubs man, the dubs.

Your story left me wondering. I also have repressed memories from my childhood, in fact, I even remember very little even of my early teen era. Sometimes, the smile on my dad's face or the eyes of my mother make me think what are they occulting me. Can you suggest some way to get back this memories? I know I can look on the internet, but first hand advice is always the best.

Also, I love you. I believe in you (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSg2OIFum3o)

obviously not deep enough you little bitch

i'm so DEEP scientists have been searching for my secret since the beginning of time, but to no avail

my mom isn't as sophisticated as me i'm fucking DEEP, i'm the star child, that swine doesn't understand true art

i go to ART SCHOOL, where do you go? dunkin donuts? you seem like the kind of pussy to go to dunkin donuts, you little bitch, probably never even drove a lamborghini, HA

you're the one with the therapist don't look at me, an online IQ test told me I'm the smartest man in the world, even smarter than lil wayne, who the FUCK are you? some scoundrel you are, to accuse ME of entering your lawn and defecating on the premises while you were away at work, working your menial little dunkin donuts job, HA, pathetic little runt

you probably can't even play twinkle twinkle little star on the piano without making a mistake, i bet your mom cries at night, UNGHHHHH I'm so DEEPPP, deeper than ROCKET SCIENCE

they wanted me to go to the moon because of how cool and aloof i am when i smoke a cigarette and i told them the moon is for pussies, PUSSIESSS

i bet you don't even read books you little bitch, i read them all, every book in the world

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CAN'T TAKE IT OH GODDDDDDDDDDDDDD I'M GONNA BLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW EVERYONE ON EARTH IS NOTHING BUT A STEPPING STONE FOR MY GREATNESS I AM MY OWN THERAPIST ARGHHHHHHHHHH I CAN'T GET ANY MORE INTELLECTUAL OR I"LL CREAMMMMM

fucking casual earthling swine

>>35705879
Relax mate. You're obviously not deep at all. That's nothing bad though, it's just the way you are.

Go play some games and fuck off.

>>35699341
Psychologists in general are fucking morons and quite frankly psychology is a borderline pseudoscience.

There was no chance for me
>been hospitalized three times inpatient, one partial inpatient
>seen at least 4 psychiatrists outpatient
>been to at least 5 counselors
>none of them understand when you tell them anything about depression, EVER
>get some of my medical records (by government request)
>when I was first hospitalized the doctor noted I was alert, intelligent, fully understanding and just way too depressed
>all the next reviews from that visit were that I'm paranoid and antisocial, that people can't have treated me like shit in the past because... nobody every does that

>>35705879

You spent 10 minutes of your left expending energy to be a faggot tryhard.

>>35706024
>replying to the most basic bait

>>35706234
I had to do it m8. Sorry.

>>35706111

I get the impression that they spend so much time dealing with the complete fucking idiots with zero introspection skills that is the average normie that they don't even consider that the patient might have already considered what their problems might be.

>>35706228
of course a casual like you would assume that took 10 minutes to type

i type 300 wpm you PLEBIAN swine

>tfw you actually like your therapist
>tfw he considers viewpoints and onions that aren't his
feels dope senpaitachi

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>>35702504
Fuck I identify with a lot of this. Like my parents downplaying anything negative I felt
Or like being hit so often as a child
Like how I too was isolated and controlled and not allowed to hang out with other children or go places
How when I was little my brother and I had to shower together to "save water"
Or how when we were really little we had to shower with our dad to "teach us how to shower"
Or how he used to "playfully" slap my ass until, I forget how old I was, I demanded that he stop because it was gross and wrong
I have two older half sisters that I don't know, the reason of which I was told because one of them said my father molested her
I'm 24 and living at home after college and the family is still grossly dysfunctional, screaming and violence is a regular occurrence
I've had a lot of mental/personal/substance problems
For most of my life I was sure I'd never been molested or anything
But some time ago I began to wonder
I'm terrified or one day remembering that I was
A while ago, my parents were screaming at each other over something that didn't matter, it was driving me crazy and I was trying to get them to stop. My father began to mock me, saying "boo hoo," I stood up and punched him in the mouth
He has spent the last 30 years eating and smoking and sitting and generally being a rude asshole, and was and still is dying of heart failure at age 51
And I really don't feel bad about that

>tfw start crying because of autism but therapist thinks you're being emotional

I've bee thinking of seeing a therapist to work out my problems with misogyny. I really dislike women a lot, and it's exhausting.

Would it make more sense to see a male or female therapist?

>Have Asian woman therapist who actually understands what it's like to have strict and overbearing parents
>Has given me good advice and I don't feel as much of a piece of shit

>Group therapy has a lesbian, a fatty, 2 Staceys, a neckbeard, and a normal guy
>Neckbeard is a faggot (actually gay)
>Staceys keep whining about their bullshit problems (WAHH WAHH I CANT MAKE FRIENDS) bullfucking shit
>Lesbian and fatty are SJWs, but I keep my mouth shut
>Don't know why I keep going back

>>35702023
Quantum physics doesn't say shit about afterlife ffs. You can come up with whatever fucking wooey theory you like but unless you have the *MATH* to back it up or can explain it in a truly EXPLICIT way, then there is no reason to give credit to such a theory beyond "woah dude yeah that's trippy"

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This thread makes me wonder about becoming a therapist in order to run into robots, but I've realized I'd mostly get adult women / troubled people in poverty, etc., almost certainly.

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>>35703024
That sounds incredibly fulfilling to a pity fisherman like me.

How'd you do it?

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The psychologist fears the philosopher.

>>35702952
Is there a bigger version of this image or one like it? I need a desktop that reflects my heart back at me.

>>35706777
Male for sure. Good luck.

>>35699341
>paying someone to tell you how wrong your life is and "just b urself ;)))))"
>you can overhear her saying "lmao that loser doesn't have any friends, omg I got a text from chad :D"

>>35699341
>that moment you realize you're deep in your therapist

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>>35707599
The philosopher fears the sociologist ;)

Some therapists/psychologists are obviously shit, but I think some of you are doing it wrong. You're supposed to be honest. You're supposed to get to a point where you feel comfortable enough with your therapist to actually say what you're really thinking, even if it's some fucked up shit, m8. If you're in the US, where I hear therapists can be close-minded as fuck, you might not want to do this, but a decent therapist is not going to fuck you over if you're just being honest.
Personally I started feeling a bit better after discussing my ACTUAL problems with my third therapist. The first few rounds with therapists I had I didn't open up enough and then it's impossible for them to try to help you. It's just a great feeling when you don't feel like you're being judged and you can speak your mind. Even if I didn't get any big revelations from going to therapy, I did get this opportunity to be at least 95% honest about everything, which is something I feel I can't do in my life otherwise. Just talking like that helped a bit with my thought pattern and suicidal tendencies.

>>35709257
why shouldnt a normal person be able to listen to your problems? the point is that its not justified to pride oneself with the title of a professional due to the fact that you can bring yourself to nod along to some random shit to fake being interested

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This might piss some of you off but I'm currently working finishing my master's degree in clinical psychology. I know you all think it's a meme, and to be fair, it is somewhat a meme. It's a meme because all the strategies used in clinical work, aside from physical diagnostics, are things that a regular person can figure out through enough thought and introspection. The point of talk therapy for example is that the clinician provides a new perspective for the patient to think on. If you want to be edgy and "manipulate" or lie to your therapist, they can already tell and they're simply playing along because those behaviours alone tell us a lot more about what you're thinking than you might want us to know. However, I agree that there is a disproportionate amount of female clinicians who are just halfway redpilled stacies.

Not really difficult as most therapists are just dumb Stacies

>>35701122
> guy was pretty youngish who played PC games and built PCs and new about 4chan and didn't even bat an eye when I told him I had a waifu.
That's boyfriend material.

>>35705879
>trying this hard
Here, take your (You) and get out.

>>35699341
>be 16
>mom sends me to a therapist because she thought I had some problem
>therapist quizzes me
>reply honestly and accurately
>therapist says "anon...you just lack confidence"
>actually just lack a drive to do anything
>go along with it so the therapist doesn't feel bad
>get "cured" in a week

>>35699680
Can attest to this. One therapist told me that I was helpless because I couldn't think of any ways to stop my suicidal impulses.

>>35699341

> be me, 23 yr old, depressed bc gf of 3 years leaves me after convincing me to ask for marriage (she met another guy who she later married, go figure)

> end up seeing school therapist in Oklahoma, asks me if I drink, tells me I shouldn't drink or the anti-depressants won't work bc alcohol is a depressant

> am timid and never done therapy before but came after months of considering it bc my life has become a living hell; on very first visit she literally says "it seems like you just don't want to talk, I guess I can't really help you if you don't want to talk"

Years later am an MD and realize how dumb her statement about alcohol is. How fucking retarded she was at psychotherapy especially considering I have obvious avoidant personality disorder. Understand she was just a dumb grad student who probably never studied and fucked a lot of other people over pretending to care about psychology.

I am still angry at this cunt for not caring about the people she fucked over just so she could pretend to be deep and get her masters degree. Shoulda just got a job at McDonalds if she wasn't going to give a shit.

>>35699341
I had a therapist who was part of an outreach program when I was younger. We drove around town and talked about whatever came to mind, really. I kind of miss that, she was a really bright and thoughtful individual, she said she thought I was too.

>>35711201

>tells me I shouldn't drink or the anti-depressants won't work bc alcohol is a depressant

top kek, now that's true retardation

one can only hope this kind of stupid gets weeded out with wikipedia and time

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Does anyone else feel bad when talking to a therapist?

I know they're just trying to help me but the truth is that all of their knowledge and years of studying is tailored for cookie cutter normies and could never help someone like me.

They try to give me helpful advice but it's completely useless to me and I feel too bad for them to just say so. So I play along and pretend that they are making good points because I don't have the heart to tell them they are useless.

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>>35702081
I don't think so anon. I've got dyspraxia (a mental disorder, that, among other things, makes it very hard for me to cope with change), so I quite funnily have been given the advice of both
>"have organisation and structure in your life"
>and "just act in the moment, don't think about what people will think of you"

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>>35703024
>mfw done this twice

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Therapist I saw was a lardass.

He had a teaching gig at a university 4 blocks from his practice and would actually have his wife drive him back and forth between the two. I couldn't respect him after learning about that.

I get jealous when I see really insightful, intelligent shrinks on TV.

>>35711739
nah I feel good because I know it makes my mother worry less. I don't actually talk about my real issues because I want to work them out myself. I basically just wait for it to end. I do feel kind of bad about wasting the therapists time and making it hard for her to come up with shit to fill an hour with but it's worth it.