Discussion Worst experiences with therapists?

[sourcreamonion]

I remember sitting in her office and watching her show me all these gadgets she wanted to use on me because they were "proven to fix people like me". I was her guinea pig.

 

[Muirthemne]

Sessions were only 20 minutes long, she spent half the time answering phone calls. When we did talk, she mostly just pushed drugs even though I said repeatedly I'd had bad experiences with them in the past and wanted to focus on talk therapy. She told me I shouldn't open up to my friends about my mental health struggles because they would think I was too "fragile," and that maybe I just shouldn't try making friends because I wasn't "ready."

Thinking about it still makes me feel worthless to this day.

 

[sourcreamonion]

Sessions were only 20 minutes long, she spent half the time answering phone calls. When we did talk, she mostly just pushed drugs even though I said repeatedly I'd had bad experiences with them in the past and wanted to focus on talk therapy. She told me I shouldn't open up to my friends about my mental health struggles because they would think I was too "fragile," and that maybe I just shouldn't try making friends because I wasn't "ready."

Thinking about it still makes me feel worthless to this day.

That's horrible, I'm sorry. I've never met a therapist who never encouraged the idea of opening up to friends.

 

[pentobarbitaldreams]

My sessions go like this:

"How was your week? What did you do?"

"Do you want to talk about anything?" (no, because you'd hospitalize me.)

"Let's play a board game"

Every single time.

 

[sourcreamonion]

My sessions go like this:

"How was your week? What did you do?"

"Do you want to talk about anything?" (no, because you'd hospitalize me.)

"Let's play a board game"

Every single time.

Same here or they would make me do breathing exercises to no end. And they'd have weird names for them as well.

 

[glittergore]

I mentioned this once in another thread, but I had a therapist tell me I would never excel in my career path because of my mental illness and heavily implied I was stupid by choosing it.

 

[aedric_artifact]

Years ago, I met my first therapist. She sat down, we had a very awkward period of small-talk. She asked me if I listen to any music. I said I love Lady Gaga's music. She says, "Really? I think all of her music sounds the same."

It was at that moment that I developed a hatred for therapy.

 

[faust]

My therapist is a nice and experienced person and the thing which was sad was not about therapy. I could call him anytime and ask whatever I want.
Despite my diagnosis he made me understand that I do not need to go on disability. Though disability could save me from a job where I would be like a walking dead and a total poverty which I experienced for a few months during lockdown. With my mental illness I am on the edge of the abyss and financial issues just push me closer. Right now I work a small amount of hours on a low-paid job, but even this makes me extremely tired, every 10-15 minutes I tell myself "Fuck this, I want to die, I do what I can't and it takes the last parts of what is left of me"

 

[Iwantoknow]

Sessions were only 20 minutes long, she spent half the time answering phone calls. When we did talk, she mostly just pushed drugs even though I said repeatedly I'd had bad experiences with them in the past and wanted to focus on talk therapy. She told me I shouldn't open up to my friends about my mental health struggles because they would think I was too "fragile," and that maybe I just shouldn't try making friends because I wasn't "ready."

Thinking about it still makes me feel worthless to this day.

This is so fucked up. That sounds like something what no one should deal with and I am really sorry to hear you experianced something like it.

 

[rhiino]

She had me contractually obligated to not commit suicide. Poor me is now stuck in this world because she might sue my dead ass, lol.