I have given this woman plenty of chances - the bottom line is that she honestly seems bored and is always contradicting me - she is turning our sessions into some kind of intelligence competition.
She seems disinterested and is on the sneaky side of things, always putting in her 2 cents on everything valid I have to say.
She does not seem to have the patience for working with severely mentally ill patients. She downplays everything and honestly I get the sense that she doesnt want me there. She would rather talk about petty things.
She never goes into my past or gives me CBT or any kind of techniques on how to cope with my psychotic anxiety.
I will cancel my appointment with her for next week, and I will go back to seeing her maybe once a month instead of 2x a week, and I will certainly not see her every week.
I just might keep her on the side and see another hands on interested therapist more often - this current therapist is a PHD waste of my time - she is negative and arrogant - I am through with this!
I hope you find a new therapist who helps you out more. I’ve had a few “one up on you” docs… and they have been a waste of time and very frustrating.
I take it… it’s your doc not your therapist who has the very solid of understanding of meds.
I really hope you find a therapist who helps you make some head way.
Good luck and keep the options open.
I get dropped by therapists after two or three sessions. Saw online if therapists suspect Borderline Personality Disorder they will walk you out the door after the first visit. I was diagnosed as as a Paranoid Schizophrenic. Not BPD.
Yeah therapists - a lot of them do not accept borderline patients. I think that I have some BPD traits, my therapist brushed the whole borderline dx away. I honestly feel that she has limited experience with SZ and bipolar patients - and has no clue about how to treat them
She sounds awful. I hope you find a good one. They are hard to come by.
BPD is serious. You need someone who can help you deal with stuff properly.
I am therapist free at the moment and I feel like I’m doing okay. I might go back to my old one if I decide to not take classes next semester. I just don’t like to unpack things with a therapist while I’m in school.
sorry to hear that.
take care
That sounds tough, try telling her what you’ve expressed on here before you do. It’s worth a shot to see if some sort of understanding exists after all the time spent on building rapport.
Not all are created equal. Mine is the ■■■■. He specializes in high functioning people, mostly rich people. He does sort of fix things up and give me intellectual band aids but he also has helped me grow in ways that really seemed impossible from the start. I was not the same person before being honest with him. I would say that he is arrogant but justifiably, and so am I. He certainly helps and I respect him completely, which is rare for me to respect someone that much. I mean he gets my full respect, I think he knows me better than I do. He likes to explain things scientifically and I can tell that he basically views things in a similar way that I do, he points out that I have some degree of residual brainwash from my catholic upbringing, which is unfortunately true, I feel guilty about sex sometimes and have some masochistic guilt things going on that I fail to fully realize without being reminded. Mine is not that great at helping me contain serious episodes, but that’s a psychiatric problem. He probably finds me interesting as I am a combination of strange and ■■■■■■up things. I am a researchers wet dream, a gorilla with a serious mental ■■■■up who ironically loves studying that which is ■■■■■■up. One of my friends calls me an oxymoron.
I probably will continue to see her, but just less of her. Maybe I am at a point in my life where therapy is just not my focal point anymore. I am doing better and am a bit tired of therapy, I just dont need as much of it.
I have gone to therapists all of my life, my last therapist helped me very much, but I was in worse shape also.
I will see her probably 2x a week or less if I can help it - just so that she can see how I am doing from time to time - the truth is that good therapists are very hard to come by- not too many therapists accept my insurance anyway around here
Nothing is wrong with shopping around for a therapist.
A poor therapist is worse than no therapist. Remember these people work for you, if they don’t help then dump them and get someone else.
Yeah I think you are right Malvok, I am seriously considering dumping her for someone else - my father is also starting to see I need to do this - I think I will start shopping around
If you want a theraphist, I would suggest you to visit lifetrackcounseling.com therapist as they are the one where you could find the best service as, I am telling you on my experience basis.
This thread was dug up from the past - recently I have been back to liking my therapist.
She is not the perfect therapist, but then again what therapist is perfect.
I think that I was comparing her too much to my last therapist - not a good idea.
Yes my current therapist is a bit stand offish but she is very smart and more of an analyzer.
It is not easy to find a therapist with my insurance so I have decided to stay where I am for now.