Is it me, or are the majority really wierd.
2006-08-10 02:15:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Kat, trust me, I neither need nor want any mental health professional in my life, I would like to remain sane.
2006-08-10 02:26:22 · update #1
I thank my lucky stars that counsellors hadn't really been invented when my dad died traumatically all those years ago. I was 14 at the time, and I didn't want to share my pain with some yoghurt-weaving counsellor, I wanted to share my pain with bad girls and assorted ne'er-do-wells.
And michiko, I'm with you on the simpering "yes, I'm really showing you that I'm listening" guff they do. Mrs Eck saw a breast feeding counsellor last year and, aside from making her feel doubly worse about the whole issue, drove her nuts with her 'empathy'.
2006-08-10 03:29:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope! Well as far as I am concerned, I trained with quite a few other folks, and they seemed ok, well almost all of them, there is always the oddball is nt there! Maybe it down to having loads of clients offloading all their problems day in and day out that has this effect on the counsellors??? I chose not to go professional at the end of the day, the minute someone knows you have done the course, they download allllllll their problems! That giant parrot over there is changing its colour again!!!!
2006-08-10 10:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to have a lot of "problems" when I was a kid, and let me tell you the counselors only made them worse. I had one counselor when I was 7 accuse me of flipping her off and get really agitated and angry. I was traumatized for many years and didn't even learn what "flipping off" meant until I was like 11 or 12. My "problems" only really got solved when I went to see a very sane psychologist.
2006-08-10 09:24:42 · answer #3 · answered by rachelinjapan24 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Psychoanalysts: a resounding: Yes! Comes from believing too much of what f**k-ups like Freud were blathering on about.
Try a person-centred counsellor if you want one - they realise they don't know you better than you know yourself, but can still give insightful responses that make you think.
2006-08-10 09:24:07 · answer #4 · answered by Kat 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My therapist seems pretty normal.
I'm willing to overlook that little 'tic' thing she does whenever I say the word 'sex'. And her hand washing compulsion. And the fact that she runs her sessions only during the full moon.
Other than that, she's really quite good. I've found her to be really helpful.
2006-08-10 10:49:16 · answer #5 · answered by oh kate! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many years ago when working in a hospital I was sent on a counselling course - the course alone is enough to send you mad/completely insane, but what made me laugh non-stop for the whole week I was there, was their complete inability to talk without tilting their heads to one side while making reassuring nodding movements. Really! Even if they are talking about going to the toilet!
Empathetic (patronising) facial expression - check!
Soft whispery voice - check!
Head tilted way over to one side - check!
Nodding motion engaged - check!
"How would you FEEL if I left you for 5 minutes to go to the toilet?"
2006-08-10 09:33:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely!
The best therapists are the ones who have already been through all the insanity!
Nobody could help you better than an expert on the subject!!!
2006-08-10 10:36:21 · answer #7 · answered by mynx326 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No definately not, counsellors help you and give you a space to discuss and work through your problems, fears , concerns.
2006-08-10 10:48:03 · answer #8 · answered by TB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea
2006-08-10 09:21:08 · answer #9 · answered by Princess Of Persia 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
when i was a school i had a counsellor. she has ok let me play with dough, but she did speak to me like she was always patrenicing me.
2006-08-10 09:50:54 · answer #10 · answered by sammy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋