counseling...

Have any of you even been to a therapist or psychaitrist or counceller or whtever?

My mum has suggested today me going, due too the shit thats gone on in my life...but im really not sure if its the best thing for me.

Whats everyone else views/experiances on going?

I've almost finished my psychology a level course so I may know a fair bit to help you out. If you're having problems now, you may be told it's down to unresolved conflicts in your subconcious. One type of therapy is free talking where your therapist will get you to talk about anything you like and as you progress you start to talk about what's bothering you and he/she'll give you ways of working it all out. It's dependant on what's bothering you, if it makes you behave abnormally etc.

I think ive just kept shit bottled up and now its changed the way I deal with thigns and has caused me too loose my girlfreind, whcih I think is for good now hahaha.

My parents forced me to start seeing psychologists when I was 16. I went through quite a few. The first ones were retarded. Then I started seeing this lesbian therapist that used to work for my father. She was pretty cool and a lot better than the others. I started seeing her when I was 17. She sorted everything out between my parents and I reguarding school and getting kicked out of the house. We created deals where if I got good grades my parents would back off. I was able to bring my GPA for my Junior year from a 0.5 to a 3.0 and then they let me take a test to get out of schoool.

Everything was cool for awhile but once we solved those problems we moved on to other ones and it just never ended. The solutions started getting really gay and I wasn't complying so they all ganged up on me and I got kicked out for awhile. It was pretty lame and I felt betrayed.

You think that when you turn 18 that then youre in the clear, but you reall never are free until you no longer depend on your parents which isnt easy.

Anyway, in reguards to counseling...all I cant tell you is that don't expect much. Every person I ever went to just sat there and listened 99% of the time. That's all they do. Sometimes they offer you some advice but it's nothing that you didn't already know. I would have to say it's the biggest overpaid bullshit job out there, right next to realtors.

You just basically pay them to listen and sometimes create 'rules' depending on your situation. They're very careful about the advice they give cause they don't wanna be wrong. I think the only people who benefit from therapy are people who are really really fucked up. So unless that's the case, you're better off just turning to a friend.

Also note that therapists and counselors can only offer you support and advice. Only psychologists can prescribe you medication.

I was instructed to see one a year or so ago, but they never called me again, they were all.. we'll pay for it.

I did some shit and got in deep trouble, and to keep from going to jail, I told everyone there I was insane.

I guess their not a very big thing in NZ, as no one has ever told me to see one, and ive never heard someone talking about one before.

I used to go to one. It sort of helps, plus mine had a nice rack of lamb

It works for some people and it also doesn’t work for some people. I took quite a few pysch classes in college, and from what I learned its basically as effective as the mindset you go into it with. If you don’t think its going to work and you resist it, of course its not going to work. If you go in with an open mind willing to try new things it works for allot of people. I donno what happened in your past skipper, but these days, unless you have a sever psychological problem (ie: Obsessive compulsive disorder) most of today’s "treatment" is basically a therapist who helps you interpret your thoughts and tries to offer a different perspective than you may have thought. Its often helpful to have someone who isn’t involved in your daily life nor connected to you personally to be able to run things by and get their opinion.

The department I work for is very pro "psychological health," and after a very traumatic situation happens, such as a stabbing, shooting, large car accident with multiple deaths ect... they have what’s called a "stress debriefing" where whoever was involved in it, sits in the conference room and talks about what happened with a therapist as a group. I know it sounds rather gay, but it actually helps us to process our thoughts with an outside voice who wasn’t directly involved and has helped me tons in terms of learning how to deal with stress, death, and pain.

Theyre for rich white cunts who need to pay someone to tell them that theyre life is fucked. You're better without them.

Therapy isn't that popular here either. I guess that people solve their problems here by commiting suicide

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So very true and well put.









And benCka: Yes that seems to be the Finnish solution... many choose booze and then later on suicide... some go for alcohol, murder/homicide and then jail ---> booze --> suicide

lol Scandinavia has the highest suicide rates

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I been to someone, not a psychologist I think, but just someone to tlk to like when my rents split up, was well shook up when I was younger but I felt like I had no one to tlk to, this guy made me feel so much better, it might help mate if it doesn't keep looking for solutions, it's worth a shot whatever it is, you never know could be a turning point in your life

Haha everything in scandinavia is so dark and depressing so I kinda understand those people
For instance

Finnish mainstream artist:
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Non-Finnish mainstream artist:


Finnish food:
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Non-Finnish food:
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Finnish women:
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Non-Finnish women
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This leaves me wondering how there's anyone left alive up here..

fuck Ben, that picture of the steak made me hungry!

That steak picture looks like a load of vaginas.

Hahahaha Bencka Fuckin brilliant Hahahahaha In Sweden theirs a hell alot of hot chicks. But Finland was much different to what I was expecting...I'm going again in the summer holidays.

Yeah they do.. Probably the highest percentage in the whole world. Pretty much the opposite from this country..

My teachers at school keep telling me and my parents I need to see some sort of thrapist or Councaller...But I generally don't think I need, My school now as a naughty kid...When really I'm not...I spoke to one of the mentors in school and they just told me a bunch of bullshit...I've spoken to connection and got excactly the same. I'm not an angry person, I'm not even that bad, If you knew me you wouldn't think of me as a bad person, people just don't see things how I do, People say they know how you feel, But they don't know shit. My school are on the verge of expelling me and my parents are really dissapointed with me...But I actually try to not get in trouble...But things just Keep popping up, This Cunt at my school keeps diggin up stuff about me on purpose, He wanted to expell me but the head teacher woukdn't allow it so now he hates me and eeps trying to dig stuff up...But all the other teachers and helpers think I'm excaggerating but I'm really not at all. Everytime I get in trouble with the police.


Fuck that went on a while.

After me and my brother got attacked it mentally fucked me up really bad, I've seen phycologists, cognative behaviour therapists, and a load of other head doctors and stuff, and I guess it helped to some extent but not particualy. Basically they were telling me what I was doing wrong and giving me goals to try and achieve by the next time I saw them. Some of the goals I managed, some I didn't. I guess it depends on the person as to if it works or not and also on the person you are seeing, becasue iv'e had a few that have really helped me and a few that just basically told me I was lazy and wasn't trying enough so I told them to go fuck theirselves... and well... strangely they didn't wanna see me again after that haha

But yeah it would be worth a try man, it may work for you.