Has anyone ever been to a counsellor, psychologist, or psychiatrist? What was it like? What were you there for?
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
I still see my counsellor!! I had bad thoughts about life and stuff when I was 12 annd she was open and willing to listen to me. It was sort of relaxing . I guess it depends on the person you get and how well & willing you two are able to communicate. It also helped in a few other areas that I hadn't expected, like family relations, school & a few other things.
ive been to one. i was like 10 and my parents had just gotten a divorice. i was swearing and acting like i was in my terrible 2s and i thought that no one could even hear that i was screaming. my mom basically took my bro to one then she was like "oh aly u can go to i guess"
ive been to all three! the psychiatrist basically just sees you for five minutes then prescribes you something, dont care too much for him.. the physchologist would actually sit down and talk with you and it is nice having someone to talk to. the counselor did basically the same thing but for some reason i liked the psychologist better. i loved the counselors at the hospital though...,
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Nah I'm confident a psychologist is a counselor. There are many times of counselors:
Social works, psychologists, etc.
A psychologist can refer you to get medication if deemed necessary yes, but they can also provide therapy.
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
I've been to a therapist/psychologist since I was five or six. Sounds like torture for such a young age doesn't it? Not exaclty. I was young so I thought of my therapist as more of a friend then anything. I went there because of my ADHD and many other things. As time went on though the visits became longer and longer apart and eventually my family and I just stopped going.
Fastforward four years later and I'm having more and more probably, such as bipolar, and many other things. I finally told my mom and I began to go see her again. Right now I'm on a loose thread with her because it seems like everytime I go to her office I cry and last time my mom cried and had to leave the room, how is that healing? Gahh, I could make an entire post on how much I hate going now, but ugh, it'd be a big waste of my time. I eventually hope to stop going though, maybe disolve out like we did before. lol.
Well a big part of therapy is releasing pent up thoughts and emotions, then learning new & constructive ways of dealing with them.
I guess having you and your mom cry every session can easily be mistaken as a useless session, but it brings things out in the open. Eventually once things are out in the open and you are more and more comfortable with expressing yourself, you can learn new and constructive ways of dealing with them head on.
I think therapy can be a very healthy thing. But then again, for some people it truly doesn't help. In the end it's your decision.
-Kris
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Well a big part of therapy is releasing pent up thoughts and emotions, then learning new & constructive ways of dealing with them.
I guess having you and your mom cry every session can easily be mistaken as a useless session, but it brings things out in the open. Eventually once things are out in the open and you are more and more comfortable with expressing yourself, you can learn new and constructive ways of dealing with them head on.
I think therapy can be a very healthy thing. But then again, for some people it truly doesn't help. In the end it's your decision.
-Kris
Yeah, that's true.
I don't really see it as useless it's just that my mom's emotion right after crying is anger and well I knew that I was going to be a target of that. Whenever I cry in therapy I never let anybody see it because, well, I'm the kind of person that just doesn't show her emotions that well. I'd rather not express my emotions in less they're happy and exciting ones, which I know isn't healthy per say.
At times I'd rather just go in their and talk to my therapist alone, but then it's really awkward and we say like two words to each other and it's over and done with. Which wouldn't be too bad, but my mom puts her ear to the door and then argues with me later about it.
But yeah, alas I have to continue going until I leave the country [no pun intended. lol. I really do plan to live the country when I get older].
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