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@nevertrustadoctorwho
never trust a therapist who talks about her kids and her dogs the whole session. also, especially, never trust a therapist who talks about her former clients and how it's so sad that they became goth and were therefore lost to satanic influences.
Wow. Therapists REALLY need to keep their religious/spiritual beliefs out of therapy unless explicitly asked.
never trust an allergist who refuses to acknowledge your previously-diagnosed allergies
Had this happen to me. Why is it so hard for doctors to believe in rare allergies? Rare doesn't mean never happens.
never trust a therapist who breaks boundaries, a couple years ago a therapist from my rtc gave me her phone number for me to text when I got out because she quit part way through my stay. I know she was trying to help but it was so unhealthy and eventually she blocked me when she finally realized how at risk she was to loosing her job. I wish she had never done that. My therory on why she did it is I think she has a savior complex and she related to my trauma.
Yeah, she never should have offered you that support if she was just going to block you later. Yikes.
Never trust a psychiatrist who doesn’t consider a diagnosis because you weren’t actively experiencing symptoms in their office.
(I went undiagnosed with bipolar for four years because I had a manic episode prior to getting a psychiatrist and not during my time with them. I experienced multiple depressive episodes, though. I had a lot of long-term consequences due to the treatment delay and that will always piss me off.)
Of course it does. People are *often* not suffering at their very most when they're in a doctor's office. Frequently they can't *get* to a doctor's office when they're suffering the worst!
we need to stop equating lack of independence with lack of maturity. people that live with their parents or have a caregiver or don't work or need more support than others aren't inherently immature. there's lots of reasons why people would be in this situation, even outside of disability (plenty of cultures out there expect people to live with their parents past what we consider the beginning of adulthood), and regardless of the reason we deserve support and community through what is already likely to be an isolating experience. don't make it worse for us
when i was about 17 my parents sent me to therapy because they thought i had anxiety. in fact my problem was that i was queer and closeted with homophobic parents and the therapist was Not capable of dealing with that. in a way it wasn't her fault i guess? but after a couple of sessions my therapy sessions turned into me teaching her about the lgbtq community instead. no therapy, just me telling her about the differences and similarities between biphobia and transphobia.
Wow... sounds like she learned more than you did, lol. I'm sorry she wasn't able to handle you being closeted. It should be okay to be in the closet if you need to be for your safety.
tw for attempted suicide, abusive therapist, abusive mental facility, and more that im not sure how to phrase
haven’t really interacted w this blog before so i may be doing this wrong?
my girlfriend during 2020 was put into a mental hospital after one of her alts forced her to make a suicide attempt, her family had military insurance so she went to a military-based mental hospital. The therapist she was assigned (and was forced to see while admitted) said that she should have just killed herself instead of wasting his time, plus some other insults.
Her parents still don’t believe that she was traumatized while admitted and that her going was the right choice.
My girlfriend is now really scared of therapists and is very untrusting of the mental health industry.
she’s slowly working towards getting better treatment but it’s a long process and she’s still had many more traumatic experiences since then.
NTDAW who suicide baits their patient holy shit. That's awful. No wonder she's scared of mental health "professionals".
Had a doctor WAY over medicate me for the entire time I saw her (at the end I was taking 13 meds overall because of other conditions and 8 of them were from her), would up doses of things before they had time to work because there wasn't immediate results, blatantly tell me she didn't think I was actually hallucinating, and refused to diagnose me with Bipolar despite saying that I "100% had it" after Lithium worked wonderfully.
I saw her for four years, she was fired right after she doubled my Lithium two appointments in a row because She wasn't satisfied with the results even though I was fine, and my thyroid was basically non-functional for the last 6-8 months I saw her before quickly stabilizing after a bunch of my meds were dropped, including the lithium.
So yeahhhh that sucked lmao. Definitely earned her my title for worst, because at least a dismissive doc didn't mess up a whole organ lmao
Yeah, wow, that's awful. Lithium is really a drug that needs to be dosed carefully. NTADW who puts you on unsafe doses of that one, for sure, it can really mess people up through lithium toxicity.
I once had a therapist who told me that I was only depressed because Mercury was in retrograde when I was born. I was like 12 and didn't realize it was weird at the time
Never trust a doctor who thinks astrology is a serious way to diagnose mental illness.
you have hopefully heard this one before but if anyone ever reccomends cognitive behavioural therapy for pain, RUN.
unsurprisingly, not being allowed to say the word "pain" does not in fact stop your immune system from disintegrating your nerves.
Relatedly, if someone tries to diagnose you with a stress caused thing without checking bloods/MRI/etc first, FIND A NEW DOCTOR PLEASE. cos that's how i ended up with brain damage.
It's ridiculous how doctors like to write off everything as stress without actually investigating the cause, especially if the patient is female.
had a therapist who, when i was a teen, secretly wrote down every negative remark or abusive thing my father did, typed them all up, and sent them to him without telling me :’)
That is so messed up. Yeah, never trust a therapist who does... that.
never trust a therapist who continuously focuses on getting you to mask your dissociative problems rather than actually addressing them so by the time you’re “better” you’re actually just repessing your OSDD symptoms and no longer have a relationship with your headmates,
also never trust a therapist who refuses to actually help you work through your severe trauma and only focuses on your (very mild and age appropriate) struggles with sleeping. i was 11 for this therapist, suicidal and fresh out of a relationship with someone who threatened my life. but nah let’s spend an hour every week talking about how i need to do breathing exercises.
Wow. Yeah, maybe focus on the thing that could actually threaten the patient's life instead?
When I told my therapist I'm bi she said it's another manifestation of my inability to make decisions. Severed my trust w her completely. Also her clinic was always too dark for me? Bitch turn on the lights ffs. I now have a great queer therapist which I like very much.
Of course it did. It is completely normal to be bisexual. That's ridiculous.
Never trust a therapist who tells you (a teenager at the time) about how her father molested her in detail for 45 minutes of an hour long appointment and then takes the last 15 to tell you that there are "major problems" in your family based only on the fact that you were walking home from the appointment.
Insisting that it wasnt that far and that i would like to have the time to myself did nothing. I still remember the details of where in her house she got molested and it's been over a decade. I only saw her the once, though there were problems in my family that were unrelated to me walking home when i told my parents about it they never made me go back.
That's awful. This person sounds like SHE has major problems that she needs to handle somehow before practicing therapy.
never trust a therapist who insists that you aren't being abused and then, when you get literally disowned, tries to question you on whether your dad "really hates you" or if it's just a cognitive distortion.
CBT can be used in such manipulative ways. I'm sorry you went through that.
ntadw jokes about raping you when you're going under anesthesia. i was 17
That doctor should lose his license. I would be 0% surprised if he has done it to someone.
Eyoo hope youre doing well! As a kid my therapist kept telling me visualize stuff to work through skills and emotions. “Picture a road to a castle in your mind” and stuff along that line was a core feature of how the sessions were run.
Folk. I have aphantasia.
(While my therapist didn’t “know” that, I had told her i cant really visualize shit and was brushed off. It was such a ridiculous way of “helping” I just found it funny)
RIP the castle in your brain. That is, unfortunately, a little funny. I hope you later managed to get better help.
