Love to all you psychologists out there, but there's definitely a bell-curve of efficacy. Too little, and it doesn't work. Too much, and every little issue feels like opening a festering wound that should've been let be. You become a case study, an interesting egg to crack. Life's got problems, sure, but sometimes all we need is someone to tell us that it's not the end of the world, help us problem solve, and some therapists just aren't good at that. I don't need you to psychoanalyze my every emotion. I just need space, and reassurance that this too shall pass with a little focus and clarity. Some therapists just aren't good at empowering people, and me having demand avoidance doesn't help with that.
My doctor told me today that she felt I wasn't being honest with her about some issues I was having, and I had no clue how to respond besides saying, "I didn't want you to know that. It wasn't your business." Frankly, I felt violated by the idea that I had to even open up to anybody about that particular thing, or meet the goals she was setting for me. Maybe I'm just resistant to her in particular. Who knows. The majority of my "trauma" (if you could really call it that) comes from medical professionals who took their practice way too far and made me share things I wasn't comfortable with.
I am a big proponent of therapy, but at a certain point, we need to stop normalizing ripping apart our psyche for someone to put back together. I need help healing myself, not letting you reshape me into your image. There is something so mortifying about the process, and we don't need to prostrate our entire selves before the altar of psychologists.
Anybody else?
