Worst thing a Psychiatrist/Therapist etc. has told you.

Post Reply New Topic

My most recent psychologist was quite irritating. On my first appointment, I told her that a year ago I took Lexapro for about three weeks, but I had to stop taking it because it made me feel worse. Every appointment since then, when I talked about my social problems, my sensory sensitivities, or my anxiety, she would ask, "Doesn't your Lexopro help with that?" Really?! I must have told her about five times that I only took it for three weeks.

When I told her that I don't like eye contact, she answered, "I feel very awkward talking to you while NOT looking at you."

When I so patiently informed the woman that I am not particularly interested in people, she responded with "To be interested in other people, you have to be interesting to other people." WTF? Did she imply that I'm boring?

When I exasperately stated that I do not enjoy interacting with other people, she simply said, "Your health issues have made you VERY self-involved."

I was very tempted to walk out at my last appointment. Fortunately, I convinced my mother to never bring me to that woman again.

This may not be the most nicest or kindest of things told to me but, it seems to been one of the most unpleasant and hurtful..Basically, my last therapist had put it to me that, due to my inherent lack of social skills as well, dealing with Depression and many other issues that the likelihood of me being able to facilitate a long-term,standing relationship would be not probable.. Personally, I found this to be quite painful indeed as, it's still something I'm trying to overcome in my daily life by making sincere attempts with getting better in social situationships in a comprehensive manner..

For me, it wasn't so much a specific "thing" but the way a psychologist assumed I would be stupid enough to believe a false statement she was telling me. I was describing my outlook on social situations using analogies she didn't like. At first, she listened to me, but when I was almost finished, she said: "I didn't hear that". Being naive enough to actually believe it, I repeated the statement more slowly and clearly. Again, she said: "I didn't hear that". By then, I realized she was lying to me, and begged her to let me finish the description. She said no, and brushed off any arguments in favor of letting me finish. Whenever I tried to "sneak in" whatever I had left to say (it was just a few sentences, for crying out loud!) by putting it in the middle of another topic, she told me "I didn't hear that" with a smirk on her face. However, I took some consolation in the fact that she did hear me finish my description, and was lying to me for a reason I can't even figure out.

Last edited by Aspie1 on 02 Nov 2009, 2:13 am, edited 1 time in total.

That place is very beautiful to look at.




I know you most likely didn't mean it to, but it almost sounds like your experience supports what that doctor told me. But yes, the absence of degradation and fear may be why you have not been affected.

The reason what was said was said was because we were discussing the affects of early childhood trauma and how it can cause children to become detached and disconnected, and they said what they said about Autistic children already being disconnected and therefore less affected, I guess in a twisted way it does make sense....but only in a twisted way.

That I belonged in a group home, while I was there. Ha! I'm going to college and living in my own apartment. Take that, you SOB!

There were accusations of manipulation when I was too scatterbrained to remember an appointment.

I still can't seem to understand why missing an appointment would be manipulative. I mean... jeez, what exactly would I get out of that (other than not talking to Dr. Incompetent)?

The first clinical psychologist I saw after discovering AS said she thought my dad molested me and my sister (not something that ever happened). She said this to a patient she thought was manic. That seems a little irresponsible and dangerous.

I have been told to leave in the middle of a session. He just looked at me and told me he had no idea what to do with me and that is probably why no one else wanted me around, either.

He seemed really dissappointed I wasn't 'manic depressive' (that is what Bi-Polar was called back in the day)

and it was a very nice place to live. it was part of the thomas walker estate

there were only 12 kids (including me) that were "patients" of that facility, and there was much annoyance from the public that such a grand and expensive piece of real estate was being used as a "dormitory for unruly kids".

there was about 50 acres of grounds around the building, and i had the best time of my life there. there were secret tunnels to the stage in the cathedral, and also bell towers long since unentered that me and kids i was with discovered.

i used to like to sit in the boat shed loft at night to watch the city bustle along. sometimes i had nice company while i was watching.

the kids called the teachers and nurses by their first names and they were allowed to smoke, and it they threw a tantrum and stormed off into the 50 acres, they were not followed and they always came back.

the food was excellent and so much money came into the place from the government that we had the best of everything.

i liked it immensely because of the victorian character of the place.

the layout was this.. i slept in a room in the west wing which is the wing on the right.



here is looking from the boat shed path toward the front entrance.



here is a shot from across the river.



yes it was a nice place to live for 3 years.


i am certainly not trying to justify any assertion your doctor made.
i can not imagine what someone who has been assaulted feels like so i can not say anything about it.

" I honestly don't know what's wrong with you."

Some of the stories here are shocking! Yikes. And I thought I had a crap therapist.

My situation was a bit unique. I lived with my parents all my life (until I was 18 or so) so I didn't realize that I only held a visa for one country; a country that I have never lived till I was forced to move "back" there (I wasn't born there either). Without holding any visa except for the said country, I started living there by myself (without any immediate family) and hated the place. I simply didn't gel with the culture, especially because people there expected me to act like "one of them". Like I have grown up in that place all my life. I was shocked that I can only legally live in a country that I have NEVER lived until then.

So I was suffering from major depression and decided to see a therapist. I told him that I looked for different ways to escape from the said country LEGALLY. He said that if I really wanted to live in another country, I could. I told him that legally, there was no avenue. He suggested using the Internet to find someone to get married.
Didn't realize how crap he was as a therapist until I stopped seeing him.

It was really disagreeable being with him. We would get into so much argument. He would negate almost everything I said. I would be like, "I really don't like how people here would do this-and-that" and he would be like, "no, that doesn't happen".

Sounds like that guy was abusing his position. This makes me wonder if it is the end for alot of things for you, just how confidential these settings really are.

- You are not psychotic, you're just seeking attention. (BS - do you think I like having schizophrenia?? Do you think I wanted to get sectioned by five police officers, 7 times in my adult life and then get sent to a stinking psych ward with no freedom?? Thankfully I have a really good consultant psychiatrist now who knows what is really going on)

- Asperger's is only ever mild (well my psychiatrist said I present more like classic autism, and I need support with daily living, I cannot speak without getting migraines afterwards, I spent years and years in supported housing, just got out and I am now having meltdown after meltdown due to stress, am covered in bruises....I cannot work, I rely on benefits, I struggle to leave the house at all unless its a free taxi to uni, an I need a full time support worker at uni....and you call that mild?)

- Aripiprazole and olanzapine are the same thing. (NO!! ! Aripiprazole is a dopamine partial agonist and olanzapine is a serotonin dopamine antagonist!! !!)

I've outwitted a few psychiatrists as I am self-taught in medicine, psychiatry, neurology, etc, as well as being a pharmacology student specialising in psychopharmacology.

That I'm oblivious to the things that are going on around me. That was in 98 and I was very aware of the things that were going on around me. I've always been very aware of the things going on around me.

It's all my fault that every person that has ever been my friend or cared about me has abandoned me...while we were in a session dealing with the fact that I'd lost my friend because she was in an abusive relationship and her (then) boyfriend had manipulated her and her friendships drastically.

I haven't seen any since I was a teenager and didn't have a lot of experience with them then so I really don't remember much about what they said to me. It never lasted long anyway because they couldn't do much with me, I guess I was considered "non compliant."

The worst thing that happened though is when I was had to see a psychiatrist when I was around 12 or 13, as part of a DFACS investigation. I didn't talk much and didn't have anything to say to him. So he would close his eyes and pretend to go to sleep through most of the visit. He ended up telling my parents he thought I was a catatonic schizophrenic because I didn't talk and wanted to have me checked into a mental hospital. They refused.