Do you think psychiatrists think we’re funny? Do we amuse them? After you spend 45 minutes telling them that you’re a mind reader or can see though walls or you are the second coming and then you walk out after 45 minutes, and they’re alone in their office do you ever think that he slaps his knee and just cracks up laughing about what you just told him? And probably when they go to their little psychiatrist parties they stand in circles swapping stories about who’s patient is craziest and have a chuckle. I used to wonder this.
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i have to write down twice a day what has triggered me , like a journal…
i hand it in every three weeks at my session…
i used to get paranoid about it…now i don’t care.
so to your question i’m sure they do talk about it…
but i have let them know my spaceship laser guns are pointed at them…lol
take care
My psych nurse whom I have seen over half a decade thinks that I am funny sometimes when I tell stories what has happened in my little town, we often laugh together, it is funny.
I would love to picture my psychiatrist having a laugh. I’ve been trying to humanize him for years… so if he did have a laugh… my work would be yielding some results. So far I’ve managed to raise a thin half smile from him.
I know he wasn’t happy when I covered his desk in milk cartons. I know he wasn’t happy when I drew on his walls in sharpie to explain an anti-kidnapper diagram.
But I think I’m hilarious and would love it if my psychiatrist could understand how hilarious I am. 
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I saw a psychologist for a while way back who was kind of a funny guy…but no…never a funny psychiatrist…not funny haha anyway.
My first psychiatrist once told me that the United States was being run by paranoid schizophrenics and when I laughed he told me with this grave expression that he was not joking.
My psychiatrist is a serious woman - she takes her job very seriously, unlike my last psychiatrist who mainly dealt with women’s issues, my current psychiatrist has a neuroscience background she sees severely mentally ill patients, a lot of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression, addictions etc…
I do know that it seems she is getting a bit frustrated with me, the other day she was laughing a bit, telling me that she noticed I have OCD - I guess I was being obsessive around her - asking questions about my DX
Was she laughing at me? It kind of seemed this way, I really am not sure - maybe I deserved it, who knows
My therapist got fed up with me the other day - I happen to know quite a bit about psychology and I was throwing some fancy words at her, she said that maybe next time I could sit in her chair - she was kind of laughing - again at my expense
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Mental illness is painful. Knowing this can cause someone to be uncomfortable and to relieve this with humor.
Wow that’s another good one.
Thanks…
i don’t know tbh. i’m sure they find us a befuddling mess most of the time and wish they knew more about the brain. i’m sure that they do discuss their patients with one another to compare symptoms and wonder where the hell they come from. xxx
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? One, but it takes a long time, and it has to want to change.
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at crimby…hahahahahahahahahaha…good one