3:37am August 25, 2014

FFS

madeofpatterns:

justanaverageday:

madeofpatterns:

justanaverageday:

fuckyeahwomenprotesting:

2ndversesameasthe1st:

madeofpatterns:

People who dislike therapy aren’t all basing their opinions on stereotypes in the media.

I have never had a helpful therapy experience. And I’ve had a lot of therapy experiences.

I’ve had several positive therapy experience but also several bad ones.

I say this as a future therapist: A LOT OF PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS ARE THE WORST AND DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY ARE DOING.

Except I’m not just talking about psych majors.

I’m also talking about established, respected professionals.

The psychiatric survivor movement, for example, is really *not* about the fact that psych majors are often clueless.

Okay I get that, and I hope I didn’t derail. I guess what I was trying to say, but didn’t say in a very productive way, is that as a psych major, I hear psych majors, who are going to be therapists, say awful awful things. They often go uncorrected by the professors and I can’t call them out every time. When I do call the out, suddenly I’m the bad student and the teacher reinforces the awful student because “everyone is entitled to an opinion.”

I’m not saying they’re clueless, I’m saying they’re downright harmful and will continue to be so because no one stops them.

I don’t think they’ll grow out of it. 

I guess I was trying to say, I hear you and I believe you about your awful experiences because I see the people who are training to be therapists, and they’re awful.

Ah, ok. Thank you for explaining.

Yes, I know what you mean.

I’ve known psych majors who went on to be therapists who were some of the most awful people I’ve ever known.  At least one of them surely relishes the power she has over patients.  And even as a psych major she had this tendency to believe highly in her own abilities.  Like when I was in isolation rooms, my dad said that she would bang on the doors outside trying to get psych ward staff to let her in and then she’d say things like “I’m a psych student, I know all about how to get her to calm down, so let me in!”  And the psych nurses were like “REALLY!?!?  Seriously!!?  You’re a psych major, so you know all about this!?”  But she was that full of herself.  Still is from what I’ve heard.

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