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| Psychiatrists and Councellors...; Your Opinions? | |
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| Topic Started: Aug 27 2008, 08:57:04 AM (180 Views) | |
| Rael | Nov 2 2008, 11:37:52 AM Post #21 |
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Firstly, I wish to apologize if we have offended you with the content of this topic. Secondly, I definitely wish someone like you were at my school... The "problem" kids there probably would have turned out better... I currently have a A-Level in Psychology but that's all... I moved countries before getting the chance to carry it on further. I agree that a large amount of people blamed things on themselves or their parents, but the counselors at my school often blamed the parents anyway... When doing extremely simple and short interviews for some one my projects in psychology, it usually took around 20 minutes to an hour to carry them out. However, most people who went to see the school counselor were in and out of her office in 5 to 10 minutes... I'm that's not an exaggeration or understatement, although I wish it was. However, the one my mother went to see for a few years when I was younger was apparently very good. I don't recall the effect it had on her because I was only about 4 or 5 then, but I know the visits helped her through her depression. I think, perhaps, I was just unlucky with the ones that I have had experiences with. As mentioned previously in this thread, the school counselor would often shrug someone off, even if they asked a simple question. However, once again, I know people who say they wouldn't be the kind of person they are without their counselor/psychologist/psychiatrist. Ironically, I know I wouldn't be who I am if had seen a "better" counselor... I really hate to use the word "better" but I can't think of a more suitable one right now. I suffered from chronic depression and a permanent feeling of guilt after the death of my father, although it took a few years to actually appear... I was only 3 when he died so it was probably unnoticeable, athough I have been I was became very quite and often flatly refused the company of other children. Those feelings were then increased and built upon due to various events that happened around/to me between the ages of 3 and 10. I was often sent to the school counselor, and would begin to start talking about things, and a few minutes later she would say something along the lines of "alright, its my break now, can you come back tomorrow?" In the end, I "grew out of" my depression, which was replaced with a generalized distrust of people, by simply witting things down and talking to myself about things in an attempt to make sense of various things. Sadly, that has left a residual feeling of distrust and disbelief in the majority of counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists, although as stated, I am aware there are a large number that are very good and take their work seriously. Does that make any sense whatsoever? I just wrote it as it came to me. 
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| batgirl | Nov 5 2008, 06:21:33 AM Post #22 |
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I think a person should shop around for the counselor or psychiatrist who is best for them. My analogy for this would be finding a guitar teacher. If you want to learn to play heavy metal guitar and your teacher was trying to teach you country western, would you stay with that teacher? Probably not. Or not for long, anyway. Yet we think doctors somehow should be one size fits all, and they are not. Shop around. The greatest triumph and revenge over the agonies of childhood is to dump them and end up happy. |
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