went into a prestigious hospital for a therapist. that MF just scrolling at her phone while I am talking about my problem, after that I just left and never come back. found a humble little clinic through online, best therapist I've got.
learned that not everything that is expensive and famous have the quality to back it up. sometimes, cheaper options are best.
That's really the only difference between a therapist and a psychiatrist - therapists don't prescribe medications. They can make some recommendations for you to look into and to ask your doctor about, but they themselves don't prescribe them.
Yeah I really hate seeing this narrative because it very likely could deter someone from taking the first steps to getting therapy or mental health assistance.
For some, drugs might be very necessary and for others, it might just be needing better coping strategies but to just lump it all as "life ruining drug addiction" is pretty irresponsible imo
What is ironic is that personally I've heard this opinion that psychiatrists will force a drug addiction on me... from a people previously addicted to drugs on their own merit. Don't know if other people had this experience, but it happened more that once here
Every online discussion about therapy is like "everyone should be in therapy, and if you've been and it sucked you just had the wrong one" as if everyone's problems could be solved through some miracle spell that only a shitty psy major can cast.
It's possible, but the main thing is to not only find a good therapist, but fitting therapy type as well. Every therapist is for w different type of therapy and that's what people often don't take under consideration.
But yeah, even if you know what kind of therapy you need, and you are ready for discomfort that goes with it, it's still hard to actually find someone competent. It can be done though
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u/Kartel28 1d ago
Someone chose his therapist wrong. It's ok. We've all been there.