Worse Psych Advice you've had:

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This really made me laugh. Not that I think it was a funny or appropriate thing for your therapist to say, but it's kind of a joke between me and my husband. Whenever another man flirts with me, like in the super market or something, my husband will say "Boy, that guy was a creep" or "There was something seriously wrong with that guy." In other words, anybody that flirts with me is crazy.

I saw a female psychiatrist three times about 10 years ago. I went to her because of frequent anxiety attacks and I was referred to her by my cardiologist who happened to be her son-in-law. On the first visit I answered her questions and tried to supply her with information which I thought was important. She said, "You don't have to tell me everything, you know." She was very snotty. She also said, "Well, we sure have the lingo down, don't we?" I should never have gone back to the B after that, but I did. The second time she requested my husband be there. She completely ignored me and talked only to him about me. The third time, she told me she wanted me to take an anti-psychotic, Haloperidol, and demonstrated all of the physical side effects it might produce. She also asked me if anyone in my family was color blind and I told her that my father and son were both color blind. She said that my "condition" was caused by the same gene that caused color-blindness. I asked her if anyone ever died from taking Haloperidol. She said, "Probably." I refused it and never saw her again. This was before I knew about AS.

Hi Trai-

Well, if we were treated as Neuro pts, there would b e less stigma. I wish there were not stigma, but there is. Plus, if ou have a psych DX then you get psych drugs. They can keep you out of certain occupations. I know neuro drugs can sometimes, too. But neuro pts are not accused of shooting up schools. Even though they have discovered that psych pts are LESS likely than the average person to shoot things up, they still have that rep.

You can lose your 2nd amendment right in certain applications and can also be barred from joining military, etc.

We should b e treated as Neuro pts because often when siceince finally figures out what a "psych" problem is, they shift them over to neuro and treatment can change. Friend had brain damage, was put in psych treatment for years to no avail.

Also, we should be treated as Neuro pts because what is a mental? If we have "mental problems, " what is a mental? If it is brain, treat the brain. I don't buy this "It's your brain, your behavior, your thoughts, your spiritual life, your emotions-----" Ok, that is a whole person. And we don't have a problem with our entire being.

Everyone will always be against me in everything.

I know it seems that way to all of us sometimes, but really, it's not true. We luvs ya.

Before I was diagnosed with AS, I had a drug pusher with a MD as the psychiatrist I saw only spent enough time to write out another prescription. I made a huge mistake of telling him that bipolar disorder runs in my family, and when I only had depression, he threw Zyprexa at me, which made me sleep so much, I was missing my college classes. As a result of that experience and having some other doctor wean me off Paxil, I swore I'd never see another psychiatrist again. I later met someone whose son was originally this psychiatrist's patient who really did have bipolar disorder, and she was put on something, when she was only there to drive him to the appointments.

"Rick, you're not a real person".

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Are you *serious*?! A psychologist actually said that to you??! !

Wow. I think we have a winner here folks.

18 horrible months of Gestalt therapy. Jeez.

Podgy little eunuch running the group. A man who observed everything and listened to nothing. I thought it was just me at first till he forgot a whole bunch of stuff one of the other clients had told him and she exploded at him. He didn't seem to be aware that his stuff wasn't working with me, no matter how hard I tried to understand him. He just kept on and on round the same sorry little track.

He'd say, "I'm trying to reach out to you," and I'd look at his hands, which were still on his knees, and shrug.

"Just be aware of what's going on around you," he would say.

And I'd look around and say, "well, I see the group sitting on the couches looking at me." And he'd sigh like I was doing it on purpose, sit back, and turn to talk to somebody else.

I'm afraid I did a rather naughty thing to get back at him, once I left. I wouldn't do it now I understand myself better (this was long before my diagnosis) but I was a bit over-wrought at the time.

That sounds like the sort of advice I'm constantly getting from my college friends. That I need to go out more, drink more, and get laid. As if I'm not already doing that sort of stuff in waaaay higher doses than is sensible for someone with AS. I'm at the point where I'm just about ready to dump the lot and never do any of it ever again (I'm sick of getting pressured to do more, and more, and MORE, when I'm already stretched WAY beyond my comfort zone and into my danger zone). I'm not sure how my NT friends would react to that.

This "advice" wasn't actually given to me by a psychiatrist or psychologist, but by my therapist. Recently, she told me to pretend that I'm not myself. To completely change my personality around others in order to blend in with them & be accepted.

I think that's incredibly terrible advice. I don't think that anyone should have to pretend to be someone they're not. Eventually, the truth would come out anyway & everyone would realize that you aren't even who they think you are & that would not be a good thing. I wouldn't be able to pretend I'm not myself, anyway, nor would I want to if I could.

I agree with Padium. Both me & a best friend I had from first grade on are only children & she has no problems whatsoever with communicating/socializing, & I always have. I was also raised around a large group of cousins who even lived with us at times, & she was not, so it was as if I weren't truly an only child in certain ways. I don't think my problems have anything to do with the fact that I'm an only child, though nearly everyone seems to think they do. If that were the case, every only child would have troubles in that area.

GOod gracious! That's madness!

Therapist: "I don't think you should have kids."
"Me: "Why?"
Therapist: "Because for one, you have Aspergers."

Sheesh. Some of us aren't ready for kids, but categorically "don't have kids"? What is the guy, a closet eugenicist or something?

I remember getting dragged to a psych for being a brat when I was a kid. That morning my mom and I had been cooking, and I'd dropped an egg on the floor and had a meltdown. Instead of telling me something like, "That's okay, it was an accident; next time it happens, just clean it up," the man insisted on telling me I must have been holding the egg the wrong way, and therefore the whole thing was my fault! I was already upset because I'd dropped the darn thing; I really didn't need that.

Yeah, dude, because a dyspraxic nine year old kid is supposed to be able to do everything so perfectly that she should never so much as drop an egg...

Must have been nice!

When I was in school there were no laptops, and handwriting (at least up through middle-school) was a subject and graded. I was constantly in danger of flunking handwriting - "Pensmanship" they called it. And everything had to be hand-written. Using fountain pens, no less. And no erasures allowed. It was awful - I remember re-writing papers over and over and over again before I could turn them in, because I'd flub a letter or a word and couldn't erase it....

What a waste of time that was.

my favorite pieces of advice that i have been given by members of my mental health team include these gems .

if you went out more you wouldnt be so agrophobic .

if you open your curtains you wont be so depressed ( i kep them closed because i am extremly light sensitive )